educated

[ ej-oo-key-tid ]

adjective

1. having undergone education:

   educated people.

2. characterized by or displaying qualities of culture and learning.
3. based on some information or experience:

   an educated estimate of next year's sales.

educated

/ ˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtɪd /

adjective

1. having an education, esp a good one
2. displaying culture, taste, and knowledge; cultivated
3. prenominal based on experience or information (esp in the phrase an educated guess )

Other Words From

• half-edu·cated adjective
• non·edu·cated adjective
• quasi-edu·cated adjective
• super·edu·cated adjective
• under·edu·cated adjective
• well-edu·cated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of educated¹

First recorded in 1660–70; educate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Babu believes that self-registration through Co-WIN may only work for the urban and educated and not for people in rural areas, and that “incomplete registration will then lead to incomplete vaccination.”

From MIT Technology Review

All of this helps the first-time or even the second-time homebuyer to be more educated in their purchase and to know all the cards that could be in their hand as they make a move toward homeownership.

From Washington Blade

In fact, research has found that is typical among those who are the least educated and least politically engaged.

From FiveThirtyEight

I think that the public needs to be more educated in the role that tech companies, and also AI, are playing in our daily lives.

From MIT Technology Review

If we know a protein’s structure, we can make educated guesses about its function.

From Singularity Hub 

As a white, educated, Western, middle-class male, I possess most of the unearned privilege the world has to offer.

From The Daily Beast

The trend is particularly concentrated in the coastal states where women are wealthier, more educated, and more liberal.

From The Daily Beast

This view is known as “theistic evolution” and is widely embraced by educated evangelicals.

From The Daily Beast

White, upper-middle-class, Ivy-League educated white men, however Great they are, are falling out of power.

From The Daily Beast

A Harvard-educated poet and professor, Linsker was arrested early Sunday morning and released without bail later that day.

From The Daily Beast

Here again, just as with the language teaching, hardly any of us are really fully educated.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a vile world because it is an under-educated world, unreasonable, suspicious, base and ferocious.

From Project Gutenberg

She is very highly educated, and is preparing her eldest son for the university herself.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.

From Project Gutenberg

The educated world repeated to itself these grotesque fallacies till it lost sight of plain and simple truths.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• accomplished
• civilized
• cultured
• enlightened
• informed
• intelligent
• knowledgeable
• literate
• prepared
• schooled
• skilled
• trained
• well-read