experienced

English

Etymology

From experience +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.ənst/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪənst/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: ex‧pe‧ri‧enced

Adjective

experienced (comparative more experienced, superlative most experienced)

1. Having experience and skill in a subject.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:

     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. Experient.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:experienced

Antonyms

• inexperienced
• green

Derived terms

• care-experienced

Translations

having experience

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: təcrübəli (az)
• Belarusian: дасве́дчаны (dasvjédčany), во́пытны (be) (vópytny), быва́лы (byvály), віда́лы (vidály), спаку́шаны (spakúšany)
• Bengali: ওয়াকেফ (bn) (ōẇakeph)
• Bulgarian: о́питен (bg) (ópiten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有經驗的／有经验的 (yǒu jīngyàn de)

• Czech: zkušený (cs)
• Dutch: ervaren (nl)
• Esperanto: sperta
• Finnish: kokenut (fi)
• French: expérimenté (fr)
• Georgian: გამოცდილი (gamocdili)
• German: erfahren (de), sattelfest (de)
• Greek: έμπειρος (el) (émpeiros)

  Ancient: ἔμπειρος (émpeiros)

• Hungarian: tapasztalt (hu)
• Japanese: 経験豊かな (けいけんゆたかな, keiken yutaka na)
• Latin: perītus
• Macedonian: искусен (iskusen)
• Malay: berpengalaman (ms)
• Maori: tautoohito
• Persian: جهاندیده (fa) (jahândide)
• Polish: doświadczony (pl), obyty
• Portuguese: experiente (pt)
• Romanian: experimentat (ro), încercat (ro)
• Russian: о́пытный (ru) (ópytnyj), искушённый (ru) (iskušónnyj), быва́лый (ru) (byvályj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: искусан

  Roman: iskusan (sh)

• Slovak: skúsený
• Slovene: izkušen
• Spanish: experimentado (es), avezado (es), ducho (es), asendereado (es), experienciado
• Swedish: erfaren (sv), förfaren (sv)
• Ukrainian: досві́дчений (dosvídčenyj), бува́лий (uk) (buvályj), споку́шений (spokúšenyj)
• Zazaki: tecrubeyın

Verb

experienced

1. simple past and past participle of experience