learned
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English lerned, from Old English læran (“to teach”)
[edit] Pronunciation 1
[edit] Verb
learned
[edit] Pronunciation 2
[edit] Adjective
learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)
- Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
[edit] Alternative forms
[edit] Usage notes
- This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes spelled with a grave accent. This is meant to indicate that the second ‘e’ is pronounced as /ɪ/, rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.
[edit] Synonyms
- (having much knowledge): brainy, erudite, knowledgeable, scholarly, educated
- See also Wikisaurus:learned
[edit] Antonyms
- (having little knowledge): ignorant, stupid, thick, uneducated
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from learned (having much knowledge)
[edit] Translations
Having much learning
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Old English leornian (“to acquire knowledge”)
[edit] Alternative forms
- learnt (UK only; seldom used in American English)
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
learned
- Simple past tense and past participle of learn.
[edit] Adjective
learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)
- Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
- Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.
[edit] Translations
acquired by learning
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Most common English words before 1923: instead · giving · presence · #657: learned · minutes · appear · thoughts
[edit] External links
- learned in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- learned in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
