learned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɜːnɪd/
ipa: /ˈlɝnɪd/
Forms: form: more learned
form: most learned
form: learnèd
form: learnéd
Etymology: From Middle English lerned, lernd, lernyd, equivalent to learn + -ed, which replaced the earlier lered (“taught”), from Old English (ġe)lǣred, past participle of lǣran (“to teach”). Learn formerly had the meaning “to teach”, which is now found only in nonstandard speech, as well as its standard meaning of “to learn”.
Senses: examples: text: the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation […]
ref: 1854, Charles Edward Pollock, Lake v. Plaxton, 156 Eng. Rep. 412 (Exch.) 414; 10 Ex. 199, 200 (Eng.)
text: The book opens with the Time Traveler dining with learned peers in late 1800s England, where he is trying to convince them that he has invented a time machine.
ref: 2011 Feb, Jess Lourey, “A Pyramid Approach to Novel Writing”, in Writer, volume 124, number 2, pages 30–32:
text: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW used to be both the best-known poet in the English-speaking world and the most beloved, adored by the learned and the lowly ...
ref: 2011 Spring, Jill Lepore, “How Longfellow Woke the Dead”, in American Scholar, volume 80, number 2, pages 33–46:
synonyms: brainy
erudite
knowledgeable
scholarly
educated
antonyms: word: unlearned
word: ignorant
word: stupid
word: thick
word: uneducated
word: educated
word: familiar
word: knowledgable
word: learned
word: trained
word: wise
glosses: Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
topics: law
glosses: A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
examples: text: But our limits will not permit us to discuss the many important and curious questions respecting the science of government, to which this learned work invites attention.
ref: 1831 March, anonymous author, “The History of the Doric Race”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume LIII, number CV (book review), page 130:
glosses: Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
Synonyms: word: academical
word: clueful
word: cultivated
word: educated
word: erudite
word: in the know
word: knowledgeable
word: knowledgeful
word: knowsome
word: learned
word: savvy
word: scholarly
word: smart
word: sussed
word: switched on
word: up on
word: well-informed
Hyponyms: word: doctiloquent
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: book-learned
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learned borrowing
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learned counsel
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learned helplessness
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learnedism
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learned judge
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learnedly
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learned member
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learnedness
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learned profession
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learned professions
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learned society
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: learned treatise
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: m'learned friends
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: my learned friend
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: prelearned
sense: terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
word: semi-learned borrowing
Related terms: word: intelligent
word: wily
word: wise
word: knowledge