learned
adjective
having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite.
half-learned
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a word derived from
learned.
Example Sentences
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Having seen Fischer-Dieskau perform toward the end of his career in the 1980s, I had already half-learned this lesson.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
Chairman Hugh Scott Jr., had only half-learned the lesson of 1948.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wait, nor against the half-learned lesson fret, Nor chide at old belief as if it erred, Because thou canst not reconcile as yet The Worker and the word.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
And we enjoin that no learned priest put to shame the half-learned, but amend him if he know better.
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry
She was like an actor who finds himself on the stage with a half-learned part and without sufficient wit to extemporize.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
