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learning - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | learning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education, knowledge |
| Synonyms: | culture, erudition, information, literature, lore, research, scholarship, science, study, training, tuition, wisdom, acquirements, attainments, letters, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | learn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | acquire information |
| Synonyms: | apprentice, attain, brush up on*, con, cram*, determine, enroll, gain, get, grasp, grind, imbibe, master, matriculate, memorize, peruse, pick up*, prepare, read, receive, review, study, take in, be taught, be trained, become able, become versed, burn midnight oil, commit to memory, crack the books, drink in, get down pat, get the hang of, get the knack of, improve mind, lucubrate, major in, minor in, pore over, soak up*, specialize in, take course, train in, wade through |
| Notes: | learn means to acquire or gain skill, knowledge or comprehension; teach means to impart skill, knowledge or comprehension to |
| Antonyms: | teach |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | learn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discover, find out |
| Synonyms: | ascertain, detect, determine, discern, gain, gather, hear, see, tumble, uncover, understand, unearth, catch on, dig up, smoke out, stumble upon, trip over |
| Antonyms: | miss, overlook |
| Main Entry: | edification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement, education |
| Synonyms: | betterment, elevation, elucidation, enhancement, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, teaching, tuition, uplifting, irradiation, schooling |
| Antonyms: | destruction, worsening |
| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction, development of knowledge |
| Synonyms: | background, brainwashing*, breeding, civilization, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, indoctrination, information, learning, literacy, nurture, preparation, reading, refinement, scholarship, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring, apprenticeship, book learning, catechism, coaching, drilling, inculcation, learnedness, pedagogy, propagandism, proselytism, rearing, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enlightenment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, understanding |
| Synonyms: | civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, refinement, sophistication, teaching, wisdom, bodhi, broad-mindedness, open-mindedness |
| Antonyms: | bewilderment, confusion, ignorance, puzzlement |
| Main Entry: | erudition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | higher education |
| Synonyms: | cultivation, culture, enlightenment, knowledge, learning, literacy, lore, pedantry, refinement, savvy, scholarship, science, bookishness, brains, intellectuality, learnedness, letters, scholarliness, studiousness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts, news |
| Synonyms: | advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse*, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word* |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquaintance, apprehension, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how*, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom, accomplishments, attainments, inside story, principles, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | literacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to read |
| Synonyms: | background, cultivation, education, knowledge, learning, proficiency, refinement, scholarship, articulacy, articulateness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, illiteracy |
| Main Entry: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
| Synonyms: | adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, mythology, saga, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition, letters, mythos, saw |
| Main Entry: | proficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, skillfulness |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, advance, advancement, aptitude, competence, dexterity, efficiency, expertise, facility, formula, green thumb, headway*, knack*, know-how*, knowledge, learning, mastery, moxie*, oil*, progress, right stuff*, savvy*, skill, stuff, talent, chops, expertness, makings, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, inability, incompetence, ineptness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interpretation of written word |
| Synonyms: | account, commentary, conception, construction, edification, education, erudition, examination, grasp, impression, inspection, knowledge, learning, lesson, paraphrase, perusal, rendition, review, scholarship, scrutiny, study, translation, treatment, understanding, version, book-learning, rendering |
| Antonyms: | writing |
| Main Entry: | science |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | methodical study of part of material world |
| Synonyms: | art, branch, discipline, education, erudition, information, learning, lore, scholarship, skill, system, technique, wisdom, body of knowledge |
| Antonyms: | art |
| Main Entry: | teaching |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education |
| Synonyms: | cultivation, culture, discipline, enlightenment, guidance, instruction, learning, reading, training, tutelage, tutoring, apprenticeship, book learning, coaching, drilling, schooling |
| Main Entry: | wisdom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight, common sense |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, balance, caution, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, erudition, experience, foresight, gumption*, horse sense*, information, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, learning, penetration, perspicacity, poise, practicality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sanity, sapience, savoir faire, savvy*, shrewdness, sophistication, stability, understanding, brains, circumspection, clear thinking, good judgment, judiciousness, pansophy, sageness, solidity |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acquisition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obtaining or receiving |
| Synonyms: | accretion, achievement, addition, attainment, buy, gain, learning, possession, prize, procurement, procuring, property, purchase, pursuit, recovery, redemption, salvage, winning, acquirement, acquiring, gaining, obtainment, procuration, retrieval |
| Antonyms: | dearth, lack, loss, need, want |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breeding, education, sophistication |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, address, art, capacity, civilization, class, courtesy, cultivation, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, dress, elegance, elevation, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fashion, finish, gentility, grace, improvement, kindness, learning, manners, nobility, perception, polish, politeness, practice, proficiency, refinement, savoir-faire, science, skill, tact, training, aestheticism, good taste, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | discovery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finding, uncovering |
| Synonyms: | analysis, calculation, detection, determination, diagnosis, discernment, disclosure, distinguishing, empiricism, encounter, exploration, exposition, exposure, feeling, hearing, identification, introduction, invention, learning, locating, location, origination, perception, revelation, strike, verification, ascertainment, authentication, certification, espial, experimentation, sensing, sighting, unearthing |
| Antonyms: | loss, miss |
| Main Entry: | scholarship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | ability, awareness, cognition, comprehension, discernment, education, erudition, expertise, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, know-how*, learning, lore, philosophy, wisdom, learnedness, schooling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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