Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characterized by erudition; learned. See Synonyms at learned.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Instructed; taught; learned; deeply read.
- Characterized by erudition.
- n. A learned person.
Wiktionary
- adj. Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or showing profound knowledge
Etymologies
- Middle English erudit, from Latin ērudītus, past participle of ērudīre, to instruct : ē-, ex-, ex- + rudis, rough, untaught; see rude.
Examples
“BTW, to prove that DLR/Diz Grace are both morons, erudite is an adjective, not a verb.”
“Those who are more "erudite" have more "erudite" visitors and commenters who are less likely to engage in useless "fighting".”
“Blogging allows me to reflect and evaluate and be 'erudite' if I want to or be 'trivial' if I want to.”
“The time for timid "erudite" responses is long gone.”
“While I’m incapable of producing the kind of erudite examination that Vic Stenger or Dr Perakh are, I’ll pass on anything I can for those who don’t mind the efforts of a rank amateur.”
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“Wylie's imaginative and thoughtful concoctions bring food and technology elements together into masterpieces of full sensory artistic escapades, augmented by his attentive, knowledgeable, enthusiastic and erudite staff.”
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“Kinky's erudite and passionate, and disappointed enough in both parties to ask, "Where do you go to give up?”
“The man who wrote "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore" is soft spoken, erudite, and thoughtful.”
“In 2003, the New York Times declared Eric Hobsbawm "one of the great British historians of his age, an unapologetic Communist and a polymath whose erudite, elegantly written histories are still widely read in schools here and abroad.”
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“An erudite yet enigmatic BBC news executive; a smarmy and sinister press officer for Prime Minister Anthony Eden; a spooky half-Russian who's a killer for which side we cannot tell—these and many more rotate by.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘erudite’.
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Words
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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cicatrix
scar tissue
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GRE prep
Words I've studying in preparation for the GRE exam
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Should be...
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Verbal Advantage List
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Hit Parade GRE
Princeton Review words
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Hodges English 10 Vocab
All the vocab will get in class over the year.
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Daily
Daily Vocab List
lull, pious, lurid, inquistor, Bawdy, objurgate, insurgent, lewd, patio, onus, lampoon, geisha and 206 more...
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words unfamiliar to me.
Unfamiliar words that are pleasing, or interesting.
tacit, repudiate, laconic, erudite, disabuse, guile, zeitgeist, cherubic, subvert, senescence, salient, fecund and 93 more...
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conflation
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litigious semantics
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My Favorite Words
As the title suggests...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
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SCRUBJAYS IDIOM
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