learned

learned

adjective

Definition of LEARNED

1

having or displaying advanced knowledge or education <the learned professor can speak knowledgeably on a wide array of subjects>

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

2

suggestive of the vocabulary used in books <a teaching assistant who tries to impress us with all of his learned words>

Synonyms erudite, learned, literary

Related Words academic (also academical), donnish, inkhorn, pedantic, scholastic; belletristic (also belle-lettristic); highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual; educated, schooled; elevated, eloquent, formal, high-flown, lofty, majestic, stately, towering; bombastic, declamatory, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin), pompous, stilted

Near Antonyms chatty, conversational; familiar, informal; slangy; illiterate

Antonyms colloquial, nonliterary, unbookish