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Erudite vs Inerudite - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between erudite and inerudite

is that erudite is while inerudite is not erudite; unlearned; ignorant.

erudite

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
  • * 1850 , , Ch. XII:
  • 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.
  • * 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 43:
  • 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.
  • * 2006 , Jeff Israely, " 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

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    inerudite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not erudite; unlearned; ignorant.
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