English Explanatory Dictionary

learned

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
  2. A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
  3. Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of learn
adj
  1. Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈlɜːnɪd/ /ˈlɝnɪd/ /ˈlɝnd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-learned (adj).wav /lɜːnd/ lûrnd /lɝnd/ en-us-learned.ogg

Word forms

learned more learned most learned learnèd learnéd learnt Learneds

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”.

Synonyms

academical clueful cultivated educated erudite in the know knowledgeable knowledgeful knowsome learned savvy scholarly smart sussed switched on up on well-informed brainy

Antonyms

ignorant uncultivated simple innate unlearned stupid thick uneducated benighted cimmerian clueless foolish ill-informed illiterate innocent lack-learning lay lewd loreless nescient oblivious philistine tenebrose unaware uncultured unenlightened unerudite uninformed unknowing unknowledgeable unlearnt unlettered unmindful unread unscholarly unschooled untaught untrained untutored unwitting

Related words

intelligent wily wise knowledge

Derived words

book-learned learned borrowing learned counsel learnedism learned judge learned loan learned loanword learnedly learned member learnedness learned profession learned society learned treatise m'learned friends my learned friend my learned friends semi-learned borrowing semi-learned loan semi-learned loanword learned helplessness prelearned
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