educated

ed·u·cat·ed  (j-ktd)

adj.

1. Having an education, especially one above the average.

2.

a. Showing evidence of schooling, training, or experience.

b. Having or exhibiting cultivation; cultured: an educated manner.

3. Based on a certain amount of experience or factual knowledge: an educated guess.

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educated

Adjective

1. having an education, esp. a good one

2. displaying culture, taste, and knowledge

3. educated guess a guess that is based on experience

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	educated - possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge) civilised, civilized - having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world" numerate - able to understand and use numbers enlightened - having knowledge and spiritual insight informed - having much knowledge or education; "an informed public"; "informed opinion"; "the informed customer" intellectual - appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature" literate - able to read and write uneducated - not having a good education
	2.	educated - characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate" enlightened informed - having much knowledge or education; "an informed public"; "informed opinion"; "the informed customer"

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educated

adjective 1. cultured, lettered, intellectual, learned, informed, experienced, polished, literary, sophisticated, refined, cultivated, enlightened, knowledgeable, civilized, tasteful, urbane, erudite, well-bred << OPPOSITE uncultured

adjective 2. taught, schooled, coached, informed, tutored, instructed, nurtured, well-informed, well-read, well-taught << OPPOSITE uneducated

Translations

educated [ˈɛdjukeɪtɪd] educate adj (person) → cultivé(e)

educated [ˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd] adj → gebildet