Word.ws English Dictionary

outlearning

outlearning is the present participle and gerund of outlearn.

Meaning of outlearn

Verb

outlearn (third-person singular simple present outlearns, present participle outlearning, simple past and past participle outlearned or outlearnt)

  1. (transitive) To surpass (someone) in learning.
    • By eleven years old, the young genius had outlearned most of his teachers.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To learn (something) completely and thoroughly; to exhaust knowledge of.
    • But when as nought according to his mind / He could outlearne1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24

Questions about outlearning

What is outlearning the present participle and gerund of?
Outlearning is the present participle and gerund of outlearn.

Words near outlearning in the dictionary

  1. outleaping
  2. outleaps
  3. outleapt
  4. outlearn
  5. outlearned
  6. outlearning
  7. outlearns
  8. outlearnt
  9. outled
  10. outler
  11. outlers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outlearning (page history and authors); outlearn (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: “outlearning.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/outlearning. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.