Dependable vs Learned - What's the difference?
dependable | learned | Related terms |
A reliable person or thing.
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(US) (learn): taught
Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
* 1854 , Charles Edward Pollock, Lake v. Plaxton , 156 Eng. Rep. 412 (Exch.) 414; 10 Ex. 199, 200 (Eng.)
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(learn)
Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
Dependable is a related term of learned.
As adjectives the difference between dependable and learned
is that dependable is able, or easily able to be depended on while learned is (poetic).As a noun dependable
is a reliable person or thing.dependable
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
learned
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lerned, from (etyl)Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell [...].
- My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation [...].
- My learned friend (a formal, courteous description of a lawyer)
Alternative forms
*Usage notes
* This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes spelled with a grave accent. This is meant to indicate that the second ‘e’ is pronounced as , rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.Synonyms
* (having much knowledge) brainy, erudite, knowledgeable, scholarly, educated * See alsoAntonyms
* (having little knowledge) ignorant, stupid, thick, uneducatedDerived terms
* learnedly * learnednessEtymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* learntVerb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.