educated, adj. 1. learned, scholarly, erudite; literate, lettered, literary, well-read, Usu. Derog. bookish; knowledgeable, informed, conversant, versed, well-versed, well-grounded; accomplished, skilled, masterly.
2. cultivated, refined, cultured, artistic, Inf. arty, Sl. artsy, Inf. longhair or longhaired; enlightened, broadminded, open-minded, aware, sensitive; articulate, well-spoken, fluent; intellectual, cerebral, brainy, highbrow or highbrowed; pedantic, pedagogish, professorial, donnish.
3. trained, schooled, instructed, tutored, coached, drilled, disciplined; prepared, readied, primed, hardened, inured; shaped, formed. education, n. 1. teaching, instruction, tuition, tutelage; direction, guidance, nurture, breeding, development; inculcation, indoctrination, initiation, discipline.
2. learning, knowledge, lore, information, skill; preparation, schooling, training, initiation, apprenticeship; erudition, scholarship, wisdom, study, Usu. Derog. bookishness; enlightenment, edification, culture, cultivation, refinement.
3. didactics, pedagogics, pedagogy. See pedagogy (def. 2). educational, adj. 1. academic, academical, scholastic, school, educatory; collegiate, college, university; learning, teaching, pedagogic, pedagogical.
2. educative, informational, informative, instructive, instructional, propaedeutic; didactic, moralistic, homiletic, homiletical, Inf. preachy, disciplinary; cultural, humanistic, scientific; broadening, edifying, uplifting. educator, n. pedagogue, educationist, Educ. methodologist, teacher, schoolteacher, schoolmaster, Chiefly Scot. dominie, schoolmistress, schoolmarm; professor, doctor, master, tutor, fellow, Brit, don, instructor, preceptor, lector, lecturer, Brit, reader, docent; mentor, counselor, guide; schoolman, scholastic, academician, academe, gownsman. educe, v. 1. draw forth or out, bring forth or out, elicit, evoke, call forth, summon; develop, derive, evolve.
2. infer, deduce, conclude, surmise, reason; suppose, guess, esteem, reckon, opine; arrive at, draw an inference or conclusion. eerie, adj. uncanny, weird, unnatural, macabre, unearthly, preternatural, mysterious; Inf. spooky, Inf. scary, creepy, eldritch; chilling, witching, scaring, alarming; ghostly, spectral, wraithlike, phantasmal; awful, dreadful, strange, odd, Scot. and North Eng. unco. efface, v. 1. expunge, obliterate, wipe out, blot out, stamp out, crush out, snuff out, strike out; eradicate, extirpate, destroy, annihilate, discreate, exterminate, abolish; remove, eliminate, get rid of, do away with, leave no vestige or trace of, put an end to, extinguish, bring to an end; terminate, dissolve, check, stop, cut short; expel, cast off, throw over.
2. erase, cancel, rub out; delete, cross out, scratch, x out, black out, mark off, blue-pencil, Print, dele.
3. withdraw, shy, draw back, recoil; be inconspicuous, blend into the scenery, be a wallflower. effect, n. 1. consequence, result, outcome, conclusion, issue, end, upshot, event, sequel; aftermath, outgrowth, afterclap, turnout, aftereffect, fallout, backwash, wake; side effect, by-product, offshoot; repercussion, reaction, feedback.