English word
Experienced
Definitions
adjective
- made skillful or wise through experience : practiced
Synonyms for experienced
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Synonyms by context
Having gained knowledge or skill in a particular field over time
adjective
- trained
- professional
- capable
Having knowledge based on maturity or longevity within a given field
adjective
- knowing
- mature
- worldly
- cultivated
- cultured
- initiated
- refined
- urbane
- worldly-wise
Experienced, knowledgeable, or familiar with (something)
adjective
- conversant
- acquainted
- informed
- abreast
- aware
- cognizant
- up
To have received a particular treatment
verb
- found
- received
- incurred
- encountered
- welcomed
- beared
- endured
- gained
- got
- acquired
(of a position, state, or form) To have acquired or assumed
verb
- took
- derived
- drew
- felt
- had
- held
- assumed
- gleaned
To have understood through experience
verb
- seen
- undergone
- been through
- gone through
- realised
- suffered
- sustained
- tasted
Antonyms for experienced
- inexperienced
- naive
- unsophisticated
- amateur
- green
- unwise
- unworldly
- amateurish
- ingenuous
- innocent
- simple
- unseasoned
- apprentice
- ignorant
- inexpert
- stupid
- new
- uninformed
- untutored
- novice
Opposite of having gained knowledge or skill in a particular field over time
- inexperienced
- amateur
- amateurish
- unseasoned
- apprentice
- inexpert
- new
- ignorant
- novice
- unprofessional
Opposite of having knowledge based on maturity or longevity within a given field
- naive
- unworldly
- innocent
- simple
- unsophisticated
- uninformed
- green
- unacquainted
- unwise
Opposite of familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures
- guileless
- ingenuous
- provincial
- untutored
- wide-eyed
- hidebound
Opposite of to have received a particular treatment
- avoided
- dodged
- averted
- evaded
- shirked
- shunned
- hid from
- shied from
- steered clear of
- ignored
Phrases
- able to perform
- a dab hand at
- adept physically
- advanced for one's age
- a hand at
- ahead of one's peers
- all around
- all there
- as sharp as a tack
- au courant
- au fait
- badly performing
- been around
- been there
- big league
- broken in
- class act
- clever with one's hands
- clued up
- crazy like a fox