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versed [vɜːst] adj
(postpositive; foll by in) thoroughly knowledgeable (about), acquainted (with), or skilled (in) ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
versed adjective knowledgeable, experienced, skilled, seasoned, qualified, familiar, practised, accomplished, competent, switched-on (informal), tasty (Brit. informal), acquainted, well-informed, proficient, sussed (Brit. slang), well up (informal), conversant Page is versed in many styles of jazz. ignorant, inexperienced, unskilled, new, green, raw, callow, unschooled, unacquainted, unpractised, unversed, unfledged Translations versed adj (also well versed) → bewandert, beschlagen (→ in in +dat); he’s well versed in the art of judo → er beherrscht die Kunst des Judos; I’m not very well versed in … → ich verstehe nicht viel or ich habe wenig Ahnung von … How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As the journals, on which I chiefly depended, had been kept by men of business, intent upon the main object of the enterprise, and but little versed in science, or curious about matters not immediately bearing upon their interest, and as they were written often in moments of fatigue or hurry, amid the inconveniences of wild encampments, they were often meagre in their details, furnishing hints to provoke rather than narratives to satisfy inquiry. Van Baerle was sufficiently versed in the history of his country to know that the celebrated Grotius was confined in that castle after the death of Barneveldt; and that the States, in their generosity to the illustrious publicist, jurist, historian, poet, and divine, had granted to him for his daily maintenance the sum of twenty-four stivers. Perhaps it is because I am not well versed in the ways of her sex. |
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