erudite

  • 11erudite — /ˈɛrədaɪt / (say eruhduyt) adjective characterised by erudition; learned or scholarly: an erudite professor; an erudite commentary. {Latin ērudītus, past participle, instructed} –eruditely, adverb –eruditeness, noun …

  • 12erudite — adjective Etymology: Middle English erudit, from Latin eruditus, from past participle of erudire to instruct, from e + rudis rude, ignorant Date: 15th century possessing or displaying erudition ; learned < an erudite scholar > • eruditely adverb …

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  • 13erudite — adjective /ˈɛr.(j)ʊ.daɪt,ˈɛr.(j)u.daɪt,ˈɛr.(j)ə.daɪt/ Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books. At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the&#8230; …

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  • 14erudite — adj. Erudite is used with these nouns: ↑work …

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  • 15erudite — [15] To be erudite is literally to be the opposite of ‘rude’. Latin rudis (source of English rude) meant ‘rough, unpolished’, and so ērudīre, a compound verb formed with the prefix ex ‘out of, from’, signified ‘take the roughness out of’, hence&#8230; …

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  • 16erudite — adjective our erudite cousin, Norma Syn: learned, scholarly, educated, knowledgeable, well read, well informed, intellectual; intelligent, clever, academic, literary; bookish, highbrow, sophisticated, cerebral; informal brainy; dated lettered See …

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  • 17erudite — UK [ˈerʊdaɪt] / US [ˈerəˌdaɪt] adjective formal someone who is erudite has a lot of knowledge because they have read or studied a lot …

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  • 18erudite — eruditas statusas T sritis Kūno kultūra ir sportas apibrėžtis Labai apsiskaitęs, išprusęs, daug žinių turintis žmogus. kilmė lot. eruditus – apsišvietęs, mokytas atitikmenys: angl. erudite vok. Erudit, m rus. эрудит …

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  • 19erudite — [15] To be erudite is literally to be the opposite of ‘rude’. Latin rudis (source of English rude) meant ‘rough, unpolished’, and so ērudīre, a compound verb formed with the prefix ex ‘out of, from’, signified ‘take the roughness out of’, hence&#8230; …

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  • 20erudite — Synonyms and related words: abstruse, civilized, cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, encyclopedic, learned, lettered, literate, pansophic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, scholarly, scholastic, studious, well read, wise …

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