erudite

Adjective

1. having or showing profound knowledge; “a learned jurist”; “an erudite professor”
   • Synonyms
     • learned
   • Similar to
     • scholarly
   • Related
     • eruditeness
     • erudition
     • learnedness
     • learning
     • scholarship
     • encyclopedism
     • encyclopaedism
     • eruditeness
     • erudition
     • learnedness
     • learning
     • scholarship
     • encyclopedism
     • encyclopaedism

From LookUp: Adjective

1. having or showing great knowledge or learning Ken could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion | she was very erudite

Origin

late Middle English: from Latin eruditus, past participle of erudire ‘instruct, train’ (based on rudis ‘rude, untrained’)

Thesaurus

Adjective

1. he was so erudite that only men who were his equals in scholarship could understand him | erudite editions of minor classical writers

Similar Words: learned scholarly well educated knowledgeable well read widely read well versed well informed lettered cultured cultivated civilized intellectual intelligent clever academic literary bookish highbrow studious sage wise sagacious discerning donnish cerebral enlightened illuminated sophisticated pedantic esoteric obscure recondite brainy genius sapient

Opposites: ignorant ill-educated