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, familiar, up, up-to-date, versed, well-informedRelated Words alive, aware, cognizant, conscious, heedful, mindful, sensible, sentientNear Antonyms insensible, unaware, unconscious, unmindful; blind, oblivious, unknowing, unwitting; inattentive, unheedingAntonyms 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, educated, learned, lettered, literate, scholarly, well-readRelated 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, undereducatedAntonyms benighted, dark, ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unscholarly