well-educated

ADJECTIVE

learned

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accomplished educated scholarly scientific studied

STRONG

cultivated cultured experienced grave grounded lettered versed

WEAK

abstruse academic bookish brainy conversant deep erudite esoteric expert highbrow in the know intellectual judicious literary literate omniscient pansophic pedantic philosophic philosophical polymath professorial recondite sage sapient sharp skilled solemn solid sound studious well-grounded well-read well-rounded

Antonyms

STRONGEST

uneducated

STRONG

green ignorant immature inexperienced unsophisticated

WEAK

stupid uninformed

Example Sentences

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We are introduced to “clever women,” well-educated daughters and wives with no upward mobility and no chance at a public life, who turned their “restless intelligence” to medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The authors caution that the study involved healthy, relatively well-educated volunteers and that the changes in brain age were modest.

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026

The fact that many Venezuelans were well-educated and highly-skilled compounded the desperation of the situation.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

I see this with my parents, with my mum, that she sometimes cannot see the nice, well-educated, well-behaved guy that I see.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

Before they returned to Lagos, her father said, with that intimidated awe he had in the face of the well-educated, “She has BA London First Class.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

well-educated

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