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learned
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[ adjective ] having or showing profound knowledge
Synonyms Examples "a learned jurist" "an erudite professor" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Nor is it an accident that baseball , growing into the national game in the last 75 years , has become a microcosm of American life , that learned societies such_as the American_Folklore_Society and the American_Historical_Association were founded in the 1880's , or that courses in American literature , American civilization , American anything have swept our school and college curricula . The work done by the analysts , the men who really know what folklore is all about , has no_more appeal than any other work of a truly scientific sort and reaches a limited , learned audience . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Some who have written on Utopia have treated it as `` a learned diversion of a learned world '' , `` a phantasy with which More amused himself '' , `` a holiday work , a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high_spirits , a revel of debate , paradox , comedy and invention '' . Some who have written on Utopia have treated it as `` a learned diversion of a learned world '' , `` a phantasy with which More amused himself '' , `` a holiday work , a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high_spirits , a revel of debate , paradox , comedy and invention '' . Secondly , to find a learned diversion and a pleasing joke in More 's account of the stupid brutalities of early sixteenth century wars , of the anguish of the poor and dispossessed , of the insolence and cruelty of the rich and powerful requires a callousness toward suffering and sin that would be surprising in a moral imbecile and most surprising in More himself . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
Examples "an enlightened public" "knowing instructors" "a knowledgeable critic" "a knowledgeable audience" Used in print (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)No one can deny that these `` back_door '' admissions to membership provisions have been seriously abused nor that they have not resulted in the admission of downright incompetents to membership in supposedly learned societies . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)`` You must be a very learned man '' , says Voltaire to one of the bandits . `` A learned man '' ? the bandit laughs in his face . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
Examples "an enlightened public" "knowing instructors" "a knowledgeable critic" "a knowledgeable audience" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (psychology) established by conditioning or learning
Synonyms Examples "a conditioned response" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 16860
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