English words for 'Excessively literate.'
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noun
- a person who can read; a literate person
- someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
- someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
- someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
- one of a series of texts for students learning to read
- a person who enjoys reading
- someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
- a public lecturer at certain universities
- A person who reads.
- (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
- Any device that reads something.
- (chiefly British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
- A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
- A person who reads a publication.
- An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
- (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
- A literary anthology.
- (in the plural) Reading glasses.
- A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
- A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
- A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
- A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
- At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
- A proofreader.
adj
noun
adj
- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
- evidencing the possession of inside information
- alert and fully informed
- characterized by conscious design or purpose
- Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding.
- Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning.
- Deliberate, wilful.
- Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent.
noun
prep
verb
adj
- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
- Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
- having or showing profound knowledge
- established by conditioning or learning
- Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
- Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
- (law, formal) A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
verb
noun
- (education) Reading comprehension.
- (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
- (programming) A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally lists in functional programming languages.
- (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
- A thorough understanding.
- the relation of comprising something
- an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)
verb
- To learn (something) more than is necessary; to study excessively, to take (something) too much to heart.
- (modeling) Mostly when talking about neural networks, to learn a task to the point where responses actually start to degrade. Compare with overfit, in model tuning contexts.
- (psychology, education) To learn (something) to the point where responses become instinctive.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- The extent of what one has read.
- The process of interpreting written language.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- (textual criticism) The wording of a version of a text in a particular place or context.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
- Something to read; reading material.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (by extension) An interpretation.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- written material intended to be read
- the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- a particular interpretation or performance
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
verb
noun
adj
verb
- (transitive, British, printing) To celebrate (a fellow printing or newspaper industry worker) to mark their completion of an apprenticeship or their retirement by (formerly) hitting metal furniture in the printing room or (more recently) hitting one's desk in the newsroom.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To do (something) quickly, in a slipshod, or unprofessional manner, especially performing or composing music or a piece of writing.
- (transitive) To beat up (someone).
- (intransitive, aviation, slang) To eject.
- play loudly
adj
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Relating to literature.
- Bookish.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
- of or relating to or characteristic of literature
- knowledgeable about literature
- appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing
adj
- characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading
- marked by care and effort
- Dedicated to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books
- (usually followed by an infinitive or by "of") Earnest in endeavors; attentive; diligent
- Planned with study; deliberate; studied.
- Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.
- Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation
name
- Misspelling of Reading.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Indiana.
- A minor city in Ringgold County, Iowa.
- A town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
- A township in Clare County, Michigan.
- A village in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9278).
- A city, the county seat of Shasta County, California.
- A township in Jackson County, Indiana.
noun
- a person who can read; a literate person
- someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
- someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
- someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
- one of a series of texts for students learning to read
- a person who enjoys reading
- someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
- a public lecturer at certain universities
- A person who reads.
- (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
- Any device that reads something.
- (chiefly British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
- A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
- A person who reads a publication.
- An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
- (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
- A literary anthology.
- (in the plural) Reading glasses.
- A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
- A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
- A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
- A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
- At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
- A proofreader.
noun
- (education) Reading comprehension.
- (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
- (programming) A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally lists in functional programming languages.
- (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
- A thorough understanding.
- the relation of comprising something
- an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- The extent of what one has read.
- The process of interpreting written language.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- (textual criticism) The wording of a version of a text in a particular place or context.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
- Something to read; reading material.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (by extension) An interpretation.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- written material intended to be read
- the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- a particular interpretation or performance
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
verb
noun
adj
verb
- (transitive, British, printing) To celebrate (a fellow printing or newspaper industry worker) to mark their completion of an apprenticeship or their retirement by (formerly) hitting metal furniture in the printing room or (more recently) hitting one's desk in the newsroom.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To do (something) quickly, in a slipshod, or unprofessional manner, especially performing or composing music or a piece of writing.
- (transitive) To beat up (someone).
- (intransitive, aviation, slang) To eject.
- play loudly
verb
- To learn (something) more than is necessary; to study excessively, to take (something) too much to heart.
- (modeling) Mostly when talking about neural networks, to learn a task to the point where responses actually start to degrade. Compare with overfit, in model tuning contexts.
- (psychology, education) To learn (something) to the point where responses become instinctive.
adj
noun
adj
- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
- evidencing the possession of inside information
- alert and fully informed
- characterized by conscious design or purpose
- Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding.
- Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning.
- Deliberate, wilful.
- Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent.
noun
prep
verb
adj
- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
- Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
- having or showing profound knowledge
- established by conditioning or learning
- Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
- Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
- (law, formal) A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
verb
adj
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Relating to literature.
- Bookish.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
- of or relating to or characteristic of literature
- knowledgeable about literature
- appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing
adj
- characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading
- marked by care and effort
- Dedicated to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books
- (usually followed by an infinitive or by "of") Earnest in endeavors; attentive; diligent
- Planned with study; deliberate; studied.
- Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.
- Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation