Synonyms of erudite

erudite

adjective

ˈer-ə-ˌdīt 

1

as in literate

having or displaying advanced knowledge or education

the most erudite people in medical research attended the conference

an erudite lecture on the latest discoveries in astronomy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• literate
• educated
• scholarly
• civilized
• cultured
• knowledgeable
• skilled
• well-read
• learned
• lettered
• informed
• academic
• academical
• instructed
• cerebral
• intellectual
• cultivated
• highbrow
• polished
• professorial
• bookish
• enlightened
• didactic
• well-bred
• pedantic
• schooled
• trained
• didactical
• refined
• briefed
• versed
• highbrowed
• polymathic
• overeducated
• self-educated
• self-taught
• inkhorn
• polymath
• self-instructed
• homeschooled
• polyhistoric

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignorant
• uneducated
• illiterate
• benighted
• dark
• unlettered
• unscholarly
• unlearned
• uncivilized
• uncultured
• uncultivated
• unintellectual
• semiliterate
• lowbrow
• uninformed
• unpolished
• unrefined
• unknowledgeable
• untutored
• unschooled
• untaught
• uninstructed
• undereducated
• ill-bred

2

as in literary

suggestive of the vocabulary used in books

the erudite language of a textbook on philosophy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• literary
• learned
• bookish
• intellectual
• educated
• academical
• academic
• scholastic
• schooled
• pedantic
• donnish
• belletristic
• highbrow
• eloquent
• formal
• bombastic
• pompous
• grandiloquent
• majestic
• declamatory
• inkhorn
• florid
• elevated
• belle-lettristic
• hifalutin
• stately
• stilted
• flowery
• highbrowed
• lofty
• high-flown
• towering
• highfalutin

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• colloquial
• conversational
• nonliterary
• chatty
• informal
• familiar
• slangy
• unbookish
• illiterate

Examples of erudite in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There is particular sorrow in seeing erudite men indulge their own cruelty. —Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023

Slanted For an artistic, erudite, or militaristic style, try the (stereotypically) French way. —Christina Pérez, Vogue, 30 July 2024

In this erudite and informative volume, some of the Caribbean’s leading specialists provide a panoramic view of the region’s political economy. —Jorge Heine, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021

Members are generally erudite, engaging, personable, honest and courteous. —Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2024

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