well-read

well–read

adj \-ˈred\

Definition of WELL-READ

: well-informed or deeply versed through reading <well–read in history>

First Known Use of WELL-READ

1592

Related to WELL-READ

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

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