1. Possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)
   "The educated workforce contributed to the country's economic growth"
    
2. Characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved
   "an educated guess";
   - enlightened

1. Give an education to
   "We must educate our youngsters better"
    
2. Create by training and teaching
   "The old master is educating world-class violinists";
   - train, develop, prepare
    
3. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
   "She is well educated in poetry";
   - school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise [Brit]

See also: civilised [Brit], civilized, enlightened, informed, intellectual, knowing, knowledgable, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, numerate, self-educated, semiliterate, well-educated, well-read, well-versed

Type of: ameliorate, amend, better, down [informal], fine-tune, improve, instruct, learn [archaic], meliorate, mend, polish, refine, teach

Antonym: uneducated

Encyclopedia: Educated