educated

educated

adjective

Definition of EDUCATED

1

: having an education; especially : having an education beyond the average <educated speakers>

2

a : giving evidence of training or practice : skilled <educated hands>

b : befitting one that is educated <educated taste>

c : based on some knowledge of fact <an educated guess>

— ed·u·cat·ed·ness noun

Examples of EDUCATED

1. These companies want an educated work force.
2. an educated woman with an impressive career

First Known Use of EDUCATED

1588

Related to EDUCATED

Synonyms

erudite, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, scholarly, well-read

Antonyms

benighted, dark, ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unscholarly

Related Words

civilized, cultivated, cultured; cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual; polished, refined, well-bred; academic (also academical), bookish, didactic, didactical, inkhorn, pedantic, professorial; informed, instructed, schooled, skilled, trained; homeschooled, self-educated, self-instructed, self-taught; briefed, enlightened, informed, versed; overeducated, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic)

Near Antonyms

uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured; lowbrow, semiliterate, unintellectual; ill-bred, unpolished, unrefined; uninformed, unknowledgeable; uninstructed, unschooled, untaught, untutored; semiliterate, undereducated

Other Education Terms

baccalaureate, colloquium, corequisite, dissertation, monograph, pedant, practicum, survey course, thesis

Rhymes with EDUCATED

addlepated, animated, antiquated, caffeinated, calculated, castellated, complicated, corrugated, crenellated, dedicated, elevated, hyphenated, integrated, laminated, liberated, mentholated, perforated, pileated, pixilated, saturated, simulated, syncopated, tessellated, unabated, uncreated, understated, variegated