Meanings
comparative more experienced · superlative most experienced
- 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.
1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of experience
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Ancient Greek ἔμπειρος
- ἔμπειρος (émpeiros)having experience
Bengali ওয়াকেফ
- ওয়াকেফ (ōẇakeph)having experience
Bulgarian о́питен
- о́питен (ópiten)having experience
Chinese Mandarin 有經驗的 /有经验的
- 有經驗的 /有经验的 (yǒu jīngyàn de)having experience
Czech zkušený
- zkušenýhaving experience
Dutch ervaren
- ervarenhaving experience
Esperanto sperta
- spertahaving experience
Estonian kogenud
- kogenudhaving experience
Finnish kokenut
- kokenuthaving experience
French expérimenté
- expérimentéhaving experience
German erfahren, sattelfest
- erfahrenhaving experience
- sattelfesthaving experience
Greek έμπειρος
- έμπειρος (émpeiros)having experience
Hindi अनुभवी
- अनुभवी (anubhvī)having experience
Hungarian tapasztalt
- tapasztalthaving experience
Japanese 経験豊かな
- 経験豊かな (keiken yutaka na)having experience
Latin perītus
- perītushaving experience
Malay berpengalaman
- berpengalamanhaving experience
Māori tautoohito
- tautoohitohaving experience
Persian جهاندیده
- جهاندیده (jahândide)having experience
Polish doświadczony, obyty
- doświadczonyhaving experience
- obytyhaving experience
Portuguese experiente
- experientehaving experience
Romanian experimentat, încercat
- experimentathaving experience
- încercathaving experience
Russian о́пытный, искушённый
- о́пытный (ópytnyj)having experience
- искушённый (iskušónnyj)having experience
- быва́лый (byvályj)having experience
Slovak skúsený
- skúsenýhaving experience
Spanish experimentado, avezado
- experimentadohaving experience
- avezadohaving experience
- duchohaving experience
- asendereadohaving experience
- experienciadohaving experience
Swedish erfaren, förfaren
- erfarenhaving experience
- förfarenhaving experience
Ukrainian досві́дчений, бува́лий
- досві́дчений (dosvídčenyj)having experience
- бува́лий (buvályj)having experience
- споку́шений (spokúšenyj)having experience
Cite this entry
experienced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/experienced
“experienced.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/experienced. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “experienced,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/experienced.
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