Meaning of LEARNED
| Pronunciation: | | 'lurnid or lurnd
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- [adj] highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
- [adj] acquired by learning; "learned skills"
- [adj] (psychology) established by conditioning or learning; "a conditioned response"
- [adj] having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"
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| | Synonyms: | | conditioned, educated, enlightened, erudite, knowing, knowledgeable, lettered, nonheritable, noninheritable, scholarly, well-educated, well-read |
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| | Antonyms: | | innate, unconditioned, unlearned | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Learn"ed\, a.
Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized
by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite;
well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a
learned book; a learned theory.
The learnedlover lost no time. --Spenser.
Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be
little knowing. --Locke.
Words of learned length and thundering sound.
--Goldsmith.
{The learned}, learned men; men of erudition; scholars. --
{Learn"ed*ly}, adv. {Learn"ed*ness}, n.
Every coxcomb swears as learnedly as they. --Swift.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstruse, academic, accomplished, au fait, autodidactic, bookish, broad-minded, civilized, college-bred, collegiate, cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, encyclopedic, erudite, experienced, expert, graduate, highbrow, intellectual, knowing, knowledgeable, lettered, literate, pansophic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, postgraduate, profound, sage, sapient, scholarly, scholastic, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, self-instructed, skilled, sophomoric, studentlike, studious, undergraduate, well-educated, well-grounded, well-informed, well-read, well-versed, wise, wise as Solomon |
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