adjective
possessing or manifesting unusually wide and deep knowledge
a most learned scholar in his field
Synonyms: erudite, scholarly, scholastic
Related Word: cultivated, cultured; academic, bookish, pedantic, professorial; abstruse, esoteric, polymath, recondite
Contrasted words: ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, untutored