educated

Thân thiện

An educated person reads a book in a quiet library.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Possessing education; having knowledge or skills acquired through systematic instruction or study: Describes a person who has received formal or informal teaching, resulting in knowledge, cultivated abilities, and refined tastes.
   • Characterized by or displaying knowledge, culture, or sound judgment: Describes an opinion, decision, or manner that is informed, reasoned, and based on learning or experience.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • She is a highly educated professional with degrees from prestigious universities.
  • The policy was based on an educated assessment of the economic data.
  • His educated accent and refined manners were immediately noticeable.

Advanced Usage

• "Educated guess": A guess or estimate based on experience and available information, making it more reliable than a random guess.

  • I don't know the exact number, but I can make an educated guess based on last year's figures.

• "Educated palate": Refined taste, especially in food and drink, developed through experience.

  • As a food critic, she has a very educated palate.

• "Self-educated": Having acquired knowledge or skills through one's own efforts, without formal instruction.

  • He was a self-educated man who learned engineering from library books.

Variants and Related Words

• Education (n): The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction.
• Educate (v): To teach or provide schooling for someone.
• Educator (n): A person who provides instruction or education; a teacher.
• Well-educated (adj): Having a high standard of education.

Synonyms

• Learned: Possessing profound, often scholarly, knowledge.
• Knowledgeable: Intelligent and well-informed.
• Cultured: Characterized by refined taste and manners arising from broad education and exposure to the arts.
• Informed: Having or showing knowledge of a subject or situation.

Antonyms

• Uneducated: Not having been educated to a high standard; lacking knowledge.
• Ignorant: Lacking knowledge or awareness in general.
• Illiterate: Unable to read or write.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved
   • an educated guess
   • an enlightened electorate
2. possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)

Từ đồng nghĩa

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