| alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| illiterate | (adjective) not able to read or write | - |
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| (adjective) lacking culture, especially in language and literature | - |
| (adjective) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field | Synonyms: ignorant |
| impolite | (adjective) not polite | - |
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| lite | (adjective) having relatively few calories | Synonyms: calorie-free, light, low-cal |
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| literal | (adjective) limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text | - |
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| (adjective) without interpretation or embellishment | - |
| (adjective) avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis) | - |
| (adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, genuine, real |
| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| literate | (adjective) able to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) versed in literature; dealing with literature | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields | - |
| nonliteral | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: figurative |
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| nonliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: unliterary |
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| nonliterate | (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: preliterate |
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| obliterable | (adjective) able to be obliterated completely | Synonyms: removable |
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| obliterate | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterated |
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| obliterated | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterate |
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| polite | (adjective) showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc. | - |
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| (adjective) not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others | Synonyms: civil |
| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel |
| popliteal | (adjective) of or relating to the area behind the knee joint | - |
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| preliterate | (adjective) not yet having acquired the ability to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: nonliterate |
| satellite | (adjective) surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power | - |
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| semiliterate | (adjective) literate but poorly informed | - |
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| (adjective) barely able to read and write | - |
| (adjective) able to read but not to write | - |
| subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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| unliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: nonliterary |
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