Definitions for: Learned


[adj] highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
[adj] acquired by learning; "learned skills"
[adj] (psychology) established by conditioning or learning; "a conditioned response"
[adj] having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"



Webster (1913) Definition: Learn"ed, a.
Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized
by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite;
well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a
learned book; a learned theory.

The learnedlover lost no time. --Spenser.

Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be
little knowing. --Locke.

Words of learned length and thundering sound.
--Goldsmith.

The learned, learned men; men of erudition; scholars. --
Learn"ed*ly, adv. Learn"ed*ness, n.

Every coxcomb swears as learnedly as they. --Swift.

Synonyms: conditioned, educated, enlightened, erudite, knowing, knowledgeable, lettered, nonheritable, noninheritable, scholarly, well-educated, well-read

Antonyms: innate, unconditioned, unlearned

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