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learned (lʉr′nid; for 3, lʉrnd)

adjective

    1. having or showing much learning; well-informed; erudite
    2. having or showing much learning in some special field a learned doctor
  2. of or characterized by scholarship, study, and learning a learned society
  3. acquired by study, experience, etc. a learned response

Etymology: orig. pp. of learn in obs. sense of “teach”

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learned Synonyms

learned

modif.

  1. Having great learning; said of people

    scholarly, erudite, scholastic, academic, accomplished, conversant with, lettered, instructed, collegiate, well-read, well-informed, bookish, pansophic, omniscient, polymathic, pedantic, professorial; see also cultured, educated 1.

    Antonyms ignorant*, incapable*, illiterate. *

  2. Showing evidence of learning; said of productions

    scholarly, scientific, deep, solid, sound, sage, philosophic, philosophical, literary, erudite, grave, solemn, sober, judicious, studied, studious, sapient, abstract, recondite, esoteric, arcane, far out*; see also profound 2.

    Antonyms superficial*, unscholarly, shallow.


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learned quotes

Learned men†do many times fail to observe decency and discretion in their behaviour and carriage, so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgment of them in greater matters by that which they find them wanting in smaller. 46

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

-Bible (NewTestament)

I am always of the opinionwith the learned, if they speak first.

-Congreve,William

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