erudite
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8.4
- adjective
- /ˈɛrʊˌdaɪt/
- Formal
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erudito
- Pretty fancy writing, but only suitable for the erudite, not for general consumption by the public.
- an erudite essay
- an erudite author
- the most erudite
Oh, that's a very, very sophisticated, erudite question.
- Oh, that's a very, very sophisticated, erudite question.
- You will be more erudite, less clumsy, you'll be far more focused.
- Does it provide some erudite economist viewpoint of GPU pricing and NVIDIA supply?
- And it's so as literature, it's so erudite and so well put together.
- And in this I am comforted and buoyed by a conversation I had with a very erudite philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appia.
- Her books are erudite and funny and full of illusions to pop culture and and and classical civilization and so forth.
- The idea that this like like erudite, good looking guy.
- There has to come a point where you go right enough with the like erudite verbose stuff.
- And it's, it's weird because he's he's otherwise he's quite an erudite guy, but he just chooses not to sort of progress beyond what he what made him successful.
Examples
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Sam Rainsy, meanwhile, is an erudite former accountant who studied in France and appeals to the country's educated elite.
Academic text (2007) -
They're very erudite and articulate, and I've learned a lot from both speakers.
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Thank you so much for your very erudite and appropriate introduction.
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Actually, he does a quite an erudite study of the image of Saint George.
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I found him quite sympathetic and an extremely erudite and very clever person.
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Perhaps one of the most erudite critics was Bernard Brodie.
Academic text (1992) -
Outram's poems can present challenges to any but the most erudite reader.
Academic text (2013) -
Last week, I was with a group of fairly erudite people... who were discussing the novel "Moby Dick."
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The scholar was erudite and accessible, incisive and playful at the same time.
Academic text (2007) -
The professor gave an erudite lecture on ancient philosophy that captivated the audience.
Synonyms
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4.1
A person who has learned a lot about a subject
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5.6
Showing careful study and deep knowledge about a subject
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3.5
A person who knows a lot about a subject or the world
Very well educated and knowing a lot about a subject
Antonyms
How Learned
Surface Forms
Etymology
Erudite comes from the Latin erudire, from e- 'out of' and rudis 'rough' or 'untrained'. Think of learning as smoothing rough wood: someone erudite has been made smooth by study, so they are very learned.