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well-read

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of well-read

having or displaying advanced knowledge or education

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Synonyms of well-read

educated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, scholarly

Words Related to well-read

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

Near Antonyms of well-read

uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured

lowbrow, semiliterate, unintellectual

ill-bred, unpolished, unrefined

uninformed, unknowledgeable

uninstructed, unschooled, untaught, untutored

semiliterate, undereducated

Antonyms of well-read

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

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