| Main Entry: | cultured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-bred, experienced |
Synonyms: |
able, accomplished, advanced, aesthetic, appreciative, au courant, blue-stocking, chivalrous, civilized, courteous, cultivated, distingue, educated, elegant, enlightened, erudite, gallant, genteel, high-class, highbrow, informed, intellectual, intelligent, knowledgeable, lettered, liberal, literary, literate, mannerly, polished, polite, refined, savant, scholarly, sensitive, sophisticated, tasteful, tolerant, traveled, understanding, up-to-date, urbane, versed, well-informed |
| Notes: | cultured refers to people and pearls; cultivated refers to mind, tastes, speech, or behavior |
Antonyms: |
ignorant, inexperienced, stupid, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | egghead |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intellectual |
Synonyms: |
bluestocking, bookworm, brain*, geek*, genius, highbrow, know-it-all, longhair, rocket scientist, scholar, thinker |
| Main Entry: | highbrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intellectual, very smart person |
Synonyms: |
Einstein, academic, academician, bluestocking, brain*, egghead, genius, illuminato, intelligentsia, literato, longhair, philosopher, sage, savant, scholar, thinker, whiz* |
| Main Entry: | blue-blooded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aristocratic |
Synonyms: |
bluestocking, elite, noble, pedigreed, privileged, purebred, refined, upper-class, well-born, well-bred |
Antonyms: |
bourgeois, common, low, lower-class, unrefined |
| Main Entry: | pedant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formalist |
Synonyms: |
bluestocking, bookworm, doctrinaire, dogmatist, egghead, methodologist, pedagogue, waling encyclopedia |