learned
adjEtymology
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”.
Definitions
Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite
Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]
- My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation […]
- The book opens with the Time Traveler dining with learned peers in late 1800s England, where he is trying to convince them that he has invented a time machine.
A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
- But our limits will not permit us to discuss the many important and curious questions respecting the science of government, to which this learned work invites attention.
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simple past and past participle of learn
Derived from experience
Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
- Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- synonymacademical
- synonymclueful
- synonymcultivated
- synonymeducated
- synonymerudite
- synonymin the know
- synonymknowledgeable
- synonymknowledgeful
- synonymknowsome
- synonymlearned
- synonymsavvy
- synonymscholarly
- antonymignorant
- antonymuncultivated
- antonymsimple
- antonyminnate
- neighborintelligent
- neighborwily
- neighborwise
- neighborknowledge
- neighbordoctiloquent
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at learned. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at learned. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at learned
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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