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View definitions for well read

well read

adjective as in literary

adjective as in scholarly

adjective as in well-read

adjective as in knowing much from reading

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While quick on his feet, funny, pointed and well-read, Stewart is a Manhattanite through and through.

Your audience is more sophisticated and well-read, and they know who Jim Cameron and Robert Rodriguez are.

But in the West, the papers were not well read, much less understood.

She was well-read, articulate and interested in current affairs.

Rod Martin, a U.S. Republican Party member and former Paypal.com advisor, said he was thrilled by how well read the kids were.

I shudder when I chance to come across a really well-read and enlightened man!

The well-read politician will see that a contest similar to those thus indicated is going on almost all over Europe.

You might almost as well read dictionaries with a hope of getting a succinct and clear view of language.

Mr. Lee gives one the impression of being a well-read man, as, in fact, he is.

"It isn't as if she wasn't clever and well read," her daughter went on.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to well-read, such as: bookish, educated, knowledgeable, literate, studious, and well-informed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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