Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In the way of one who is literate.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

literate +‎ -ly

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word literately.

Examples

  • There's a kind of literately sensuous pleasure in Enge's writing—not so much sentence by sentence, of the sort found in Shakespeare, Mervyn Peake, and Raymond Chandler—to pick a wide range—but in his storytelling, including his writing per se, his sense of humor, his cleverness, and his power of invention.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Lou Anders 2009

  • His skin would literately peel itself off him due to some genetic disorder.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Darwi 2009

  • In a society literately built on oil this will serve as a showcase for a new way of thinking sustainable planning.

    Zira Island by BIG Architects 2009

  • His skin would literately peel itself off him due to some genetic disorder.

    The Proust Questionnaire Darwi 2009

  • The more they scream and beg her to drop out, the more votes Hillary literately pick up on her way to November!

    Clinton, Obama dead even, poll says 2008

  • This guy can literately do anything, and hes the only director ever whos style transcends genre.

    Danny Boyle Filming 127 Hours with Two Cinematographers « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • I literately felt sick to my stomach leaving Iran.

    CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2009 2009

  • The Dems NEED to make these jack_holes stand up and commit political suicide OR literately die of fatigue while cutting their own throats with their own flapping gums.

    Breaking: Reid Yanks Defense Authorization Bill To Force GOP's Hand 2009

  • I mention that until the early 1990s Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza were part of the Israeli landscape, primarily as cheap laborers who built houses, cleaned streets, and worked in agriculture, but that today they have literately disappeared.

    Israel's Occupation: Chris Spannos interviews Neve Gordon about his new book 2008

  • If you've five spare minutes and a liking for free speech, science and squid, perhaps you could jot off an email to PZ's boss and ask him, politely and literately, not to let the deranged witch-hunting theocratic wackaloons win this one.

    Archive 2008-07-01 MissPrism 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.