well-educated

Questions about well-educated

What is another word for well-educated?

It depends which well-educated you mean. In the sense “highly educated; having extensive information or understanding”, the synonyms are knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-read. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of well-educated?

WordNet records no antonym for well-educated. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for well-educated come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of well-educated

• Full entry for well-educatedAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for well-educatedWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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