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Adjectives (8)
conditioned
adj. established by conditioning or learning; "a conditioned response"
erudite
adj. having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"
literate, enlightened, knowledgeable, lettered, well-educated, well-read
adj. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
Fuzzynyms (55)
intellectual
adj. appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
deep, profound
adj. showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being; "the differences are profound"; "a profound insight"; "a profound book"; "a profound mind"; "profound contempt"; "profound regret"
educated
adj. possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)
literate
adj. versed in literature; dealing with literature
highbrow, highbrowed
adj. highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"
knowledgeable
adj. alert and fully informed; "a knowing collector of rare books"; "surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on"
literate, enlightened, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read
adj. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
cognizant, cognisant, cognizant of
adj. (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception; "was aware of his opponent's hostility"; "became aware of her surroundings"; "aware that he had exceeded the speed limit"
experienced
adj. having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
instructed, schooled, taught, tutored
adj. all used only (or chiefly) with qualifiers "well" or "poorly" or "un-"
urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured
adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
polished, literary, well-written
adj. knowledgeable about literature; "a literary style"
refined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
sophisticated, intellectually appealing
adj. intellectually appealing; "a sophisticated drama"
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
enlightened
adj. having knowledge and spiritual insight;
knowing, blase, worldly
adj. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"
knowledgeable
adj. alert and fully informed; "a knowing collector of rare books"; "surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on"
learned, erudite
adj. having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"
literate
adj. versed in literature; dealing with literature
cognizant, cognisant, cognizant of
adj. (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception; "was aware of his opponent's hostility"; "became aware of her surroundings"; "aware that he had exceeded the speed limit"
experienced
adj. having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
scholarly
adj. characteristic of scholars or scholarship; "scholarly pursuits"; "a scholarly treatise"; "a scholarly attitude"
wise, knowing, wise to
adj. evidencing the possession of inside information
Synonyms (11)
academic, donnish, pedantic
adj. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
studious, bookish
adj. characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child"
instructed, schooled, taught, tutored
adj. all used only (or chiefly) with qualifiers "well" or "poorly" or "un-"
self-educated
adj. educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction
semiliterate
adj. literate but poorly informed
Antonyms (4)
unconditioned, unlearned, innate
adj. not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex"
uneducated
adj. not having a good education
learned
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