Erudite vs Cultured - What's the difference?
erudite | cultured |
Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
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* 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 43:
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Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
Artificially developed.
(culture)
As adjectives the difference between erudite and cultured
is that erudite is learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books while cultured is learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.As a verb cultured is
past tense of culture.erudite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
- Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
Preaching Controversy," Time , 17 Sept.:
- Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.
Synonyms
* See alsocultured
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- cultured voice
- cultured plant
