From Middle English lerned, lernd, lernyd, equivalent to learn + -ed, which replaced the earlier lered ("taught"), from Old English lǣred, past participle of lǣran ("to teach").

• (British) IPA: /ˈlɜːnɪd/
• (America) IPA: /ˈlɝnɪd/

learned

1. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.

   Synonyms: brainy, erudite, knowledgeable, scholarly, educated, Thesaurus:learned

   Antonyms: unlearned, ignorant, stupid, thick, uneducated, Thesaurus:ignorant

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:

     the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]

   • 1854, Charles Edward Pollock, Lake v. Plaxton, 156 Eng. Rep. 412 (Exch.) 414; 10 Ex. 199, 200 (Eng.)

     My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation […]

2. (legal, formal)
3. Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.

• French: érudit, savant, instruit
• German: gelehrt, gebildet, studiert, gelehrsam, qualifiziert, fachkundig, fundiert, akademisch, belehrt
• Italian: colto, dotto, istruito, erudito, letterato
• Portuguese: douto, erudito, instruído, sábio, culto
• Russian: учёный
• Spanish: erudito, leído

Past participle of learn.

• (British) IPA: /lɜːnd/
• (America) enPR: lûrnd, IPA: /lɝnd/

1. (North America and dialectal English) Simple past tense and past participle of learn

learned

1. Derived from experience; acquired by learning.

   Antonyms: unlearned

   Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.

• French: appris
• German: angelernt, erlernt, gelernt, angeeignet, erfahren
• Russian: нау́чный

1. Surname.