EDUCATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does educated mean? 

• EDUCATED (adjective)
  The adjective EDUCATED has 2 senses:

1. possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)

2. characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

  Familiarity information: EDUCATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDUCATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)

Similar:

knowing; knowledgeable; learned; lettered; well-educated; well-read (highly educated; having extensive information or understanding)

literate (knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields)

self-educated (educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction)

semiliterate (literate but poorly informed)

Also:

civilised; civilized (having a high state of culture and development both social and technological)

numerate (able to understand and use numbers)

enlightened (having knowledge and spiritual insight)

informed (having much knowledge or education)

intellectual (appealing to or using the intellect)

literate (able to read and write)

Antonym:

uneducated (not having a good education)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

Synonyms:

educated; enlightened

Context example:

an enlightened electorate

Similar:

informed (having much knowledge or education)

 Context examples 

She was certainly not a woman of family, but well educated, accomplished, rich, and excessively in love with his friend.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A doctor; a person who has been educated, trained, and licensed to practice the art and science of medicine; a practitioner of medicine, as contrasted with a surgeon.

(Physician, NCI Thesaurus)

The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) is a not-profit independent global organization that funds brain tumor research and provides the information patients need to make educated decisions about their health care.

(American Brain Tumor Association, NCI Thesaurus)

I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I shall always have a great regard for the Miss Martins, especially Elizabeth, and should be very sorry to give them up, for they are quite as well educated as me.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

‘No; but I was educated by a French family and understand that language only.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The researchers suggest this was likely because less educated men work outside more in China and are thus more exposed to polluted air.

(Pollution Linked to Significant Decline in Human Cognition, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“He is not being educated anywhere. I don't know what to do with him. He is a difficult subject.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A few minutes later we were joined by a short, stout man whose olive face and coal-black hair proclaimed his Southern origin, though his speech was that of an educated Englishman.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was a beauty, poor thing, and well educated.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)