knowledgeable

knowledgeable

adjective

Definition of KNOWLEDGEABLE

1

having information especially as a result of study or experience <I'm fairly knowledgeable about wine>

Synonyms abreast, acquainted, au courant, conversant, informed, knowledgeable, up, up-to-date, versed, well-informed

Related Words alive, aware, cognizant, conscious, heedful, mindful, sensible, sentient

Near Antonyms insensible, unaware, unconscious, unmindful; blind, oblivious, unknowing, unwitting; inattentive, unheeding

Antonyms ignorant, unacquainted, unfamiliar, uninformed, unknowledgeable

2

having or displaying advanced knowledge or education <knowledgeable historians regard that story as pure fiction> <a knowledgeable report on the latest advances in cancer research>

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

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

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