| 单词 | educated |
| 释义 | educated (once / 250 pages) adj If you're educated, you've been to school or college, or otherwise been instructed or trained. Using long, fancy words will either make people think you're educated or that you're a show-off. When you make an educated decision about something, you've learned about the subject before making up your mind — you've been educated or educated yourself, and you understand it completely. An educated conversation or debate about a topic is one in which both sides have knowledge about the issues. Educated comes from educate, with its Latin root, educare, which means both "educate" and "bring up or rear children." WORD FAMILYeducated: self-educated, undereducated, uneducated+/coeducate: coeducated/coeducational: coeducationally/educate: co-educate, coeducate, educated, educates, educating, education, educative, educator/education: coeducation, educational, educationalist, educationist, educations, self-education/educational: coeducational, educationally/educationalist: educationalists/educationist: educationists/educative: educatively/educator: educators USAGE EXAMPLESHe is educated, a leader, a world-class ultramarathoner and a traditional believer. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) She is an educated, smart, talented and strong-willed woman who decided to remain at home with our children. New York Times(Jul 30, 2015) Mr Murray was educated at Edinburgh and Oxford universities before being called to the bar. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge) Syn|Ant civilised, civilized having a high state of culture and development both social and technological knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-readhighly educated; having extensive information or understanding literateknowledgeable and educated in one or several fields self-educatededucated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction semiliterateliterate but poorly informed numerateable to understand and use numbers enlightenedhaving knowledge and spiritual insight informedhaving much knowledge or education intellectualappealing to or using the intellect literateable to read and write uneducated not having a good education noncivilised, noncivilizednot having a high state of culture and social development ignorant, illiterateuneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field ignorant, nescient, unlearned, unlettereduneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication undereducatedpoorly or insufficiently educated unschooled, untaught, untutoredlacking in schooling unstudiedlacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field innumeratelacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods unenlightenednot enlightened; ignorant uninformednot informed; lacking in knowledge or information illiteratenot able to read or write 2adj characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved an educated guess Syn enlightened informed having much knowledge or education |
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