lettered

let·tered

adjective \ˈle-tərd\

Definition of LETTERED

1

a : learned, educated

b : of, relating to, or characterized by learning : cultured

2

: inscribed with or as if with letters

Examples of LETTERED

1. <the lettered crowd is well acquainted with the author, but the average person probably hasn't heard of him>

First Known Use of LETTERED

14th century

Related to LETTERED

Synonyms

erudite, knowledgeable, learned, educated, 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