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Erudite vs Stuffed - What's the difference?

erudite | stuffed |

As adjectives the difference between erudite and stuffed

is that erudite is learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books while stuffed is full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).

As a verb stuffed is

past tense of stuff.

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

    * See also

    Related terms

    * eruditely * erudition

    stuffed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stuff)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).
  • :
  • *
  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
  • *1997 , Philippe Bonnefis, Paul Weidmann (translator), Céline: The Recall of the Birds , p.109:
  • *:Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.
  • *2008 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side , p.2:
  • *:She didn?t forget to pack anything, none of those irritating little things that wait till the last moment to pop out of hiding and make her re-open her most stuffed suitcase.
  • *2009 , Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies , 2nd Edition, unnumbered page:
  • *:The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.
  • *2009 , David Ugba, Awaken the Riches Within: Creating Extraordinary Wealth Using the Powerful Imagination of a Poet , iUniverse, p.96:
  • *:Creating a poetic or extraordinary belief is the simple act of intensifying the mood or atmosphere of your belief and making it more stuffed with the ability or power to come real.
  • (lb) Full after eating.
  • :
  • *2002 , Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women?s Recovery from Bulimia , p.40:
  • *:Beth says: “I never knew when I was full ?cause I always felt like I didn?t know whether I was hungry or full. My whole life I never knew when I was full or hungry unless I was really stuffed or really starving.”
  • *2009 , Jason McCammon, The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest: Search for the IFA Scepter , unnumbered page:
  • *:“See, huge meal.” Replied Farra. / “Still stuffed'.” / “Yes, quite ' stuffed .”
  • *2009 , Swapna Dutta, Geeta Menon (editor), Folk Tales of West Bengal , p.47:
  • *:Allhadi gave a contented yawn and said: / “I have eaten till I am really stuffed / I am full and bloated and so puffed / I am bursting, I am telling you true / I couldn?t eat more if you begged me to.”
  • Very tired.
  • *2011 , Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human , Xlibris, p.74:
  • *:‘Well, you talked me into it,’ said Cornelius. ‘I feel really stuffed . I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.’
  • Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
  • *1998 , , The Night is for Hunting , 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, unnumbered page:
  • *:If the suspension was stuffed' already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really ' stuffed by the time we?d gone a kilometre along the railway.
  • *2002 , Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings , p.174:
  • *:But if you don?t play ball in life, if you don?t go for it with a sincere ‘Go, girrrrl’ rugby-tackle attitude, you?re really stuffed .

    • Derived terms

    * get stuffed * stuffed animal, stuffy * stuffed shirt