learned
learned Lexical Profile
learned Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To have acquired knowledge of or skill in something through study, instruction, or experience (past tense and past participle of learn).
"She learned three foreign languages during her years working abroad as a diplomat."
To have become aware of something by information or from observation (past tense and past participle of learn).
"We learned about the schedule change only after arriving at the conference hall."
• adjective
Acquired through experience, training, or conditioning rather than being innate or instinctive.
"Psychologists distinguish between innate reflexes and learned behaviors that develop through social interaction."
Having or showing profound knowledge, scholarship, or erudition acquired by extensive study.
"The university invited a learned professor of classical antiquity to deliver the keynote address."
Word Nuance & Usage
As a past-tense verb or participial adjective ('acquired through study'), 'learned' is pronounced as one syllable (/lɜːrnd/); as an adjective meaning 'erudite or scholarly,' it is pronounced as two syllables (/ˈlɜːrnɪd/). In British English, 'learnt' is a common alternative for the verb form, whereas American English strongly prefers 'learned'.
• Rhymes for learned
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English lerned, the past participle of lernen ('to learn'), from Old English leornian ('to get knowledge, be cultivated, study, read, think about'), of West Germanic origin.