learned

learned
I
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [Having Great learning; said of people ]
Syn. 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 .
Ant. ignorant*, incapable, illiterate.
2. [Showing evidence of learning; said of productions ]
Syn. 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 .
Ant. superficial*, unscholarly, shallow.
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
educated, schooled, erudite, scholarly, literate, well-read, knowledgeable, lettered, intellectual, pedantic, bookish.
ANT.: ignorant, unschooled, illiterate
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Having or showing profound knowledge and scholarship: erudite, lettered, scholarly, wise1. See KNOWLEDGE.

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