erudite
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++er·u·dite /ˈerədaɪt/ adjective INTELLIGENTshowing a lot of knowledge based on careful study 博学的,学问精深的 SYN learned —eruditely adverb —erudition /ˌerəˈdɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
erudite• Among themselves, ecclesiastics have become eminently sophisticated and erudite.• Gregarious, erudite and energetic, Brezzo could never be accused of thinking in small, ordinary ways.• These are biographers who are imposingly erudite but never pedantic.• He's erudite, enormously warm and most of all, a golfer.• Many children with verbal processing difficulty go on to be-come gifted interpreters of literature or become erudite in philosophy or social sciences.• His guttural utterances are accompanied by erudite subtitles.• Accelerating violence and horror eventually hit maximum velocity and warp into nonsense, no matter how erudite the script.• "The Cunning Man" is an intricate and erudite work.Origin erudite (1400-1500) Latin past participle of erudire “to give instruction to”, from rudis “rude, uneducated”er·u·dite adjectiveChineseSyllable
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erudite
er‧u‧dite /ˈerədaɪt, ˈerʊdaɪt/
adjective
SYN learned
—eruditely adverb
—erudition /ˌerəˈdɪʃən, ˌerʊˈdɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]
er‧u‧dite /ˈerədaɪt, ˈerʊdaɪt/
adjective Date: 1400-1500
Language: Latin
Origin: past participle of erudire 'to give instruction to', from rudis 'rude, uneducated'
showing a lot of knowledge based on careful study Language: Latin
Origin: past participle of erudire 'to give instruction to', from rudis 'rude, uneducated'
SYN learned
—eruditely adverb
—erudition /ˌerəˈdɪʃən, ˌerʊˈdɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]