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Synonyms & Antonyms of well-read
having or displaying advanced knowledge or education
- any well-read person would recognize the quotation
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- academic
- (also academical),
- bookish,
- didactic,
- didactical,
- inkhorn,
- pedantic,
- professorial
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The first known use of well-read was in 1574
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