learned (root: learn)

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: learn=ed
• COUNT in NET: 36 in 36 verses (in OT : 14 in 14 verses) (in NT : 22 in 22 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

learned, 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.  [1913 Webster]
"The learnedlover lost no time."  [1913 Webster]
"Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing."  [1913 Webster]
"Words of learned length and thundering sound."  [1913 Webster]
"Every coxcomb swears as learnedly as they."  [1913 Webster]

The learned, learned men; men of erudition; scholars.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

learned, adj.
1 having much knowledge acquired by study.
2 showing or requiring learning (a learned work).
3 studied or pursued by learned persons.
4 concerned with the interests of learned persons; scholarly (a learned journal).
5 Brit. as a courteous description of a lawyer in certain formal contexts (my learned friend).

Derivative

learnedly adv. learnedness n.

Etymology

ME f. LEARN in the sense 'teach'

THESAURUS

learned

abstruse, academic, accomplished, au fait, autodidactic, bookish, broad-minded, civilized, college-bred, collegiate, cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, encyclopedic, erudite, experienced, expert, graduate, highbrow, intellectual, knowing, knowledgeable, lettered, literate, pansophic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, postgraduate, profound, sage, sapient, scholarly, scholastic, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, self-instructed, skilled, sophomoric, studentlike, studious, undergraduate, well-educated, well-grounded, well-informed, well-read, well-versed, wise, wise as Solomon

ROGET THESAURUS

learned

Scholar

N scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.