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learned

learned

4.4
Gained by experience or training rather than being natural
  • adjective
  • /ˈlɜrnɪd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : aprendido
  • The child's learned behavior in social situations showed how much he had observed and adapted.

So they're expressing this learned motor pattern.

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Examples

  • And how much of it is learned resilience and strategy?

  • Her learned responses in the debate reflected years of studying philosophy.

  • Through regular practice, he developed a learned approach to solving complex problems.

Synonyms

conditioned
vslearned
  • Specialized
4.3

Learned to react in a certain way through repeated experience or training

is gained from various experiences rather than only repeated association
acquired
vslearned
  • Specialized
4.1

Not present at birth but learned or developed later

is gained through experience or repeated exposure rather than genetic inheritance
trained
vslearned
1.9

Able to do something well because of practice

is formed by general experience or association rather than by deliberate practice

Antonyms

52 5.2

A quality present from birth that is not learned

28 4.1

A natural quick action or feeling that happens without thinking

Compounds

1 4.4

A person who knows a lot about a subject from study

learned response
  • Specialized
1 5.7

A reaction a person develops from practice or experience, not one they are born with

6.4

A job like law or medicine that needs a lot of study and high moral standards

learned reaction
  • Specialized
5.3

A way of acting you get from practice or experience

How Learned

trained
1.9
learned
  • Specialized
4.4
conditioned
  • Specialized
4.3
acquired
  • Specialized
4.1
instinctive
28 4.1

Surface Forms

learned positive

Morphology

learned = learn (transparent) = learn + ed

This adjective denotes something acquired through learning (learn + -ed) and is directly interpretable from the verb.

Etymology

Learned in this sense comes from the verb learn, which means 'to get skills or knowledge by experience'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a habit an animal picks up after practice, so a 'learned' behavior is one gained from experience.