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
I shall never forget your reputation, so justly acquired, torn to pieces, and blasted by the inexorable cruelty of half-learned pretenders to science.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle
The half-learned sneered at the title as absurd and at the style as vulgar.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd
Don’t you see this; he has half-learned what he wants to know in the desire he feels.
From Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden by George Manville Fenn
