learned | Definition of learned

Synonyms and Antonyms of learned

1 having or displaying advanced knowledge or education

the learned professor can speak knowledgeably on a wide array of subjects

Synonyms of learned

educated, erudite, knowledgeable, lettered, literate, scholarly, well-read

Words Related to learned

civilized, cultivated, cultured

cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual

polished, refined, well-bred

academic (also academical), bookish, didactic, didactical, inkhorn, pedantic, professorial

informed, instructed, schooled, skilled, trained

homeschooled, self-educated, self-instructed, self-taught

briefed, enlightened, informed, versed

overeducated, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic)

Near Antonyms of learned

uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured

lowbrow, semiliterate, unintellectual

ill-bred, unpolished, unrefined

uninformed, unknowledgeable

uninstructed, unschooled, untaught, untutored

semiliterate, undereducated

Antonyms of learned

benighted, dark, ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unscholarly

2 suggestive of the vocabulary used in books

a teaching assistant who tries to impress us with all of his learned words

Synonyms of learned

bookish, erudite, literary

Words Related to learned

academic (also academical), donnish, inkhorn, pedantic, scholastic

belletristic (also belle-lettristic)

highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual

educated, schooled

elevated, eloquent, formal, high-flown, lofty, majestic, stately, towering

bombastic, declamatory, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin), pompous, stilted

Near Antonyms of learned

chatty, conversational

familiar, informal

Antonyms of learned

colloquial, nonliterary, unbookish