well-read
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4.5
- adjective
- /ˈwɛlˈrɛd/
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- Given that you are obviously so well-read, I wonder if you can help me?
You're the most well read person I've seen creating content.
- You're the most well read person I've seen creating content.
- Don't worry so much about whether you're well read or not.
- Someone else did, and someone that was not very well read at all.
- He's just forward thinking, intelligent, well read, understands a lot, and he's conveying those ideas.
- People love this question and you're exceptionally well read.
- They might be writing to show off their start up or, you know, to demonstrate to people how cool they are or how well read they are.
- He is incredibly intellectually curious and well read, and I like how simplistic he likes to keep his thought matrix.
- You are not ready to write until you are very well read and well versed in the literature you are proposing to create.
- I, I don't really understand very complex things and I have pretty bad ADHD and so everybody thinks I'm, I'm extremely well read.
- So as you guys know, Doug is very, very well read.
- Yeah, no Counter was very, very well read, philosophers.
- And he's one of those people that just blew my whole mind and well read.
- And successful meant well educated, well read and be able to handle almost anything thrown at me.
Examples
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"Ah, no wonder you're so well read," he says.
Fiction book (1999) -
He really is quite well-read considering he's only been literate for a month now.
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In fact, he is the most well-read person I have met.
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You are not ready to write until you are very well read and well versed in the literature you are proposing to create.
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I am educated and well-read!
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Chomsky is so focused and well-read; I doubt one like him will come again.
Blog text (19) -
Besides being well-read, she was able to speak the local language fairly fluently.
Fiction book (1994) -
In online debates, he makes his mark as well-read and one with strong opinions about Norwegian politics.
Blog text (22) -
Willie may be mad, but he is well-read, having mooched my castoff books for years.
Fiction book (1994) -
In fact, he is the most well-read person I have met.
Synonyms
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4.1
A person who has learned a lot about a subject
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3.9
Has learned a lot and knows many things
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3.5
A person who knows a lot about a subject or the world
A person who is well educated and knows a lot about books and ideas
Showing a lot of knowledge from books
Having a strong interest in books and their ideas
Very well educated and knowing a lot about a subject
Antonyms
How Knowledgeable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Well-read comes from the two simple words well, meaning 'thoroughly' or 'in a good way', and read, the past form of the verb 'read' meaning 'to have read books'. So, to be well-read is to have 'read a lot' and so to know much from reading.