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experienced

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪənst//
  • United States//ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.ənst//

Having experience and skill in a subject.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having experience and skill in a subject.

    The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.

  2. 2

    Experient.

Etymology

From experience + -ed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of experiencesimple past and past participle of experience

Forms

comparative
more experienced
superlative
most experienced
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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