adj.1 having much knowledge acquired by study.
2 showing or requiring learning (a learned work).
3 studied or pursued by learned persons.
4 concerned with the interests of learned persons; scholarly (a learned journal).
5 Brit. as a courteous description of a lawyer in certain formal contexts (my learned friend).
Derivatives:
learnedly adv. learnedness n.
Etymology: ME f. LEARN in the sense 'teach'