learned

Having profound, often systematic knowledge; erudite.

Showing or characterized by such knowledge.

Acquired by learning or experience.

Possessed of the learning of schools; well furnished with literary and scientific knowledge; erudite: as, a learned man.

Well acquainted; having much experience; skilful: often with in: as, learned in art.

Pertaining to or manifesting learning; exhibiting the effect of instruction or learning; scholastic: as, learned accomplishments; a learned treatise.

Synonyms and Learned, Scholarly, erudite, deep read. These words agree in representing the possession of a knowledge obtained by careful and protracted study, especially in books. They differ in that learned expresses depth and fullness in the knowledge, while scholarly expresses accuracy: as, a learned and scholarly treatise upon the use of the dative case. Learned expresses only the result of study; scholarly may express the result or the spirit: as, scholarly tastes. See ignorant.

Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed

learned men; men of erudition; scholars.

Simple past tense and past participle of learn: taught