different between discerning vs learned

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??s??n.i?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??s?n.i?/

Verb

discerning

1. present participle of discern

Adjective

discerning (comparative more discerning, superlative most discerning)

1. Of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive.

Related terms

• discern

Translations

Noun

discerning (plural discernings)

1. discernment
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, I. iv. 224:

     Either his notion weakens, his discernings / Are lethargied

Anagrams

• rescinding

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English lerned, lernd, lernyd, equivalent to learn +? -ed, which replaced the earlier lered (“taught”), from Old English (?e)l?red, past participle of l?ran (“to teach”). Learn formerly had the meaning “to teach”, which is now found only in nonstandard speech, as well as its standard meaning of “to learn”.

Alternative forms

• learnèd, learnéd

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??n?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?n?d/

Adjective

learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)

1. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.

   Synonyms: brainy, erudite, knowledgeable, scholarly, educated; see also Thesaurus:learned

   Antonyms: ignorant, stupid, thick, uneducated

   • 1854, Charles Edward Pollock, Lake v. Plaxton, 156 Eng. Rep. 412 (Exch.) 414; 10 Ex. 199, 200 (Eng.)

     My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation […]
2. (law, formal) A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
3. Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.

Usage notes

• This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes spelled with a grave accent, learnèd. This is meant to indicate that the second ‘e’ is pronounced as /?/ or /?/, rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English leornian (“to acquire knowledge”)

Alternative forms

• learnt (UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand; alternative in Canada; rarely used in American English)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??nd/
• (US) enPR: lûrnd, IPA^(key): /l?nd/

Verb

learned

1. (Canada, US and dialectal English) simple past tense and past participle of learn

Adjective

learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)

1. Derived from experience; acquired by learning.

   Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.

Translations

References

Further reading

• learned in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• learned in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Darleen, Darlene, Leander, relaned