Word.ws English Dictionary

learnedest

learnedest is the superlative form of learned.

Meaning of learned

Adjective (1)

learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)

  1. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
    • the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (formal) A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
  3. Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
    • But our limits will not permit us to discuss the many important and curious questions respecting the science of government, to which this learned work invites attention.1831 March, anonymous author, “The History of the Doric Race”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume LIII, number CV (book review), page 130

Adjective (2)

learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)

  1. Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
    • Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.
    Antonyms:
    unlearned

See all 5 meanings of learned

Forms of learnedest

alternative form (obsolete)learnedst

Questions about learnedest

What is learnedest the superlative form of?
Learnedest is the superlative form of learned.

Words near learnedest in the dictionary

  1. learned the hard way
  2. learned the ropes
  3. learned to walk before one could run
  4. learned treatise
  5. learned treatises
  6. learnedest
  7. learnedism
  8. learnedisms
  9. learnedly
  10. learnedness
  11. learnednesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: learnedest (page history and authors); learned (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “learnedest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/learnedest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.