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单词 overeducated
释义

overeducated

adjective

over·​ed·​u·​cat·​ed ˌō-vər-ˈe-jə-ˌkā-təd How to pronounce overeducated (audio)
: having too much academic education : more educated than is practical or useful
… a solitary, overeducated young man with a boring corporation job, despite an advanced degree in math … Alice Adams
… a ready-made work force of overeducated, underemployed English speakers. David Amsden

Word History

First Known Use

1788, in the meaning defined above

overeducated

adjective

as in enlightened

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • enlightened
  • informed
  • polymath
  • skilled
  • professorial
  • polymathic
  • self-educated
  • versed
  • homeschooled
  • informed
  • briefed
  • instructed
  • trained
  • schooled
  • academic
  • bookish
  • self-taught
  • didactic
  • educated
  • pedantic
  • highbrow
  • cultured
  • intellectual
  • self-instructed
  • polished
  • cerebral
  • literate
  • cultivated
  • civilized
  • erudite
  • polyhistoric
  • well-bred
  • inkhorn
  • academical
  • knowledgeable
  • didactical
  • highbrowed
  • learned
  • refined
  • scholarly
  • well-read
  • lettered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • uneducated
  • ignorant
  • illiterate
  • benighted
  • unlearned
  • uncultured
  • dark
  • uncivilized
  • uncultivated
  • unlettered
  • unscholarly
  • semiliterate
  • unintellectual
  • lowbrow
  • uninformed
  • undereducated
  • unpolished
  • unrefined
  • unknowledgeable
  • unschooled
  • untutored
  • untaught
  • semiliterate
  • uninstructed
  • ill-bred
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