Definition of LEARNED

learned

Verb

  • gain knowledge or skills
    • "She learned dancing from her sister"
    • "I learned Sanskrit"
  • get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
    • "I learned that she has two grown-up children"
  • commit to memory; learn by heart
  • be a student of a certain subject
  • impart skills or knowledge to
  • find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
  • simple past and past participle of learn

Adjective Satellite

  • having or showing profound knowledge
    • "a learned jurist"
  • highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

Adjective

  • established by conditioning or learning

Adj

  • Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
  • A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
  • Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
  • Derived from experience; acquired by learning.

Examples

  • Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.

Origin / Etymology

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”.

Synonyms

acquire, ascertain, check, con, conditioned, determine, discover, erudite, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, instruct, knowing, knowledgeable, larn, learn, lettered, memorise, memorize, pick up, read, see, study, take, teach, watch, well-educated, well-read, academical, brainy, clueful, cultivated, educated, in the know, knowledgeful, knowsome, learned, savvy, scholarly, smart, sussed, switched on, up on, well-informed

Scrabble Score: 8

learned: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
learned: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
learned: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

learned: valid Words With Friends Word