learning

The word “learning” has 2 syllables: learn-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈlɜrnɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for learning?

In the thesaurus, “learning” has 82 synonyms and 35 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for learning along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for learning

  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • acquirements
  • apprehending
  • ascertaining
  • assimilating
  • attainments
  • bookishness
  • calculating
  • comprehending
  • conning
  • culture
  • descrying
  • detecting
  • determining
  • digesting
  • digging out
  • digging up
  • discerning
  • discovering
  • divining
  • edification
  • education
  • encountering
  • enlightenment
  • erudition
  • espying
  • examining
  • figuring out
  • finding
  • finding out
  • getting
  • getting the hang of
  • getting wind of
  • grasping
  • hearing
  • imbibing
  • information
  • knowing
  • knowledge
  • learnedness
  • letters
  • literacy
  • literature
  • locating
  • looking for
  • lore
  • mastering
  • memorizing
  • minding
  • nosing out
  • noting
  • observing
  • pedantry
  • perceiving
  • picking up
  • reading
  • realizing
  • recalling
  • recollecting
  • reliving
  • remembering
  • research
  • retaining
  • rummaging
  • running down
  • scaring up
  • scholarship
  • schooling
  • science
  • seeing
  • seeking
  • sighting
  • spotting
  • study
  • studying
  • training
  • tuition
  • turning up
  • understanding
  • unearthing
  • wisdom

Antonyms for learning

  • blanketing
  • blotting out
  • cloaking
  • concealing
  • covering
  • curtaining
  • disregarding
  • disremembering
  • enshrouding
  • forgetting
  • functional illiteracy
  • hiding
  • ignorance
  • ignoring
  • illiteracy
  • illiterateness
  • losing
  • masking
  • mis-setting
  • mislaying
  • misplacing
  • misremembering
  • missetting
  • missing
  • misunderstanding
  • neglecting
  • occulting
  • overlooking
  • overpassing
  • passing over
  • screening
  • shrouding
  • slighting
  • unlearning
  • veiling

Meanings of learning

  • verb
    1. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
    2. To attend a course or other educational activity.
    3. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
    4. To study.
    5. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
    6. To teach.
  • noun
    1. An act in which something is learned.
    2. Accumulated knowledge.
    3. Something that has been learned.

Example Sentences

  • She enjoys learning new languages in her free time.
  • The children are learning through play and exploration.
  • Lifelong learning is essential in a rapidly changing world.
  • Learning from failure is key to personal growth.
  • Online platforms have made learning more accessible than ever.

On this page you'll find 117 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to learning, such as: absorbing, accepting, acquirements, apprehending, ascertaining, assimilating, attainments.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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earful

  • account
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  • encounter
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  • enlightenment
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  • erudition
  • excess
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  • eye-opener
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  • flash
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  • hoax
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  • illumination
  • info
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  • injury
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  • interview
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  • inundation
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  • kick in the teeth
  • knowledge
  • leak
  • learning
  • lecture
  • lesson
  • letter
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  • lore
  • lowdown
  • malicious talk
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  • material
  • meddling
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  • message
  • missive
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  • negotiation
  • network
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  • note
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  • notification
  • notoriety
  • objurgation
  • oracle
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  • outburst
  • outflow
  • outpouring
  • overabundance
  • overage
  • overflow
  • overkill
  • overmuch
  • oversupply
  • palaver
  • paper
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  • parley
  • prate
  • prating
  • prattle
  • proclamation
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  • prophecy
  • publication
  • punishment
  • put down
  • rap
  • rash
  • rating
  • rebuff
  • refusal
  • remonstrance
  • report
  • reprehension
  • reproach
  • reproof
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  • repulse
  • repute
  • river
  • row
  • rumble
  • rumor
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  • scandal
  • science
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  • scoop
  • score
  • scuttlebutt
  • seminar
  • shower
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  • slander
  • slap in the face
  • small talk
  • snub
  • spate
  • speech
  • spiel
  • storm
  • story
  • straight talk
  • stream
  • suggestion
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  • supposition
  • surfeit
  • surge
  • surplus
  • symposium
  • tale
  • talk
  • talking-to
  • tattle
  • telling-off
  • the latest
  • tide
  • tidings
  • tip
  • tittle-tattle
  • tongue-lashing
  • torrent
  • uncovering
  • unearthing
  • unveiling
  • upbraiding
  • ventilation
  • vision
  • visit
  • volley
  • whisper
  • whispering
  • whispering campaign
  • whole story
  • wire
  • wisdom
  • word

gaining

  • abduction
  • accelerating
  • accepting
  • accomplishing
  • accretion
  • accruing
  • accumulating
  • achievement
  • achieving
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquirement
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • addition
  • admission
  • advancing
  • advantageous
  • affluent
  • afloat
  • afoot
  • agreement
  • alive
  • alluring
  • amassing
  • annexing
  • appreciating
  • apprehension
  • approaching
  • appropriating
  • appropriation
  • approval
  • arete
  • arguing
  • arrest
  • arrival
  • assent
  • assimilating
  • attaining
  • attainment
  • attracting
  • auspicious
  • bag
  • bagging
  • ballooning
  • beating
  • beguiling
  • blandishing
  • blarneying
  • blessed
  • blowing up
  • booming
  • boosting
  • born with a silver spoon
  • bourgeoning
  • brainwashing
  • bright
  • bringing
  • bringing around
  • bringing in
  • building up
  • bulking
  • burgeoning
  • bust
  • buy
  • cajoling
  • capturing
  • carrying
  • catch
  • catching
  • chalking up
  • charmed
  • chewing over
  • clearing
  • climbing
  • clutching
  • coaxing
  • collar
  • coming around
  • coming back
  • coming by
  • coming round
  • coming to
  • commandeering
  • completion
  • compliance
  • confiscating
  • confiscation
  • consent
  • continuing
  • convalescing
  • convenient
  • conversing
  • converting
  • convincing
  • cooperation
  • crescendoing
  • cresting
  • debating
  • discussing
  • disputing
  • distending
  • drawing
  • drop
  • earning
  • elevating
  • encouraging
  • enhancing
  • enlarging
  • enriching
  • ensnaring
  • enticing
  • entreating
  • equaling
  • equalling
  • escalating
  • excelling
  • exciting
  • exhorting
  • expanding
  • extending
  • fall
  • fast-talking
  • favorable
  • favored
  • feat
  • felicitous
  • finish
  • flourishing
  • fortuitous
  • fulfillment
  • functioning
  • gain
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • get a break
  • getting
  • go ahead
  • going
  • golden
  • grab
  • grasping
  • green light
  • grossing
  • happening
  • happy
  • healing
  • healthy
  • heightening
  • helpful
  • hit the jackpot
  • hitting
  • hook
  • hopeful
  • imprisonment
  • improving
  • in luck
  • in the gravy
  • inclining
  • increasing
  • inducing
  • inflating
  • influencing
  • inheriting
  • intensifying
  • interesting
  • jumping
  • knock off
  • knocking down
  • landing
  • laying hold of
  • leading on
  • learning
  • logging
  • lucky
  • luring
  • making
  • mastering
  • matching
  • maximizing
  • meeting
  • mending
  • mooting
  • mounting
  • moving
  • multiplying
  • mushrooming
  • nab
  • nail
  • netting
  • nod
  • obtaining
  • obtainment
  • occupation
  • occupying
  • okay
  • on a roll
  • ongoing
  • operating
  • opportune
  • outdoing
  • overcoming
  • overpersuading
  • peaking
  • permission
  • persuading
  • pick up
  • picking up
  • pinch
  • possession
  • prize
  • proceeding
  • procuration
  • procurement
  • procuring
  • profitable
  • proliferating
  • promising
  • prompting
  • property
  • propitious
  • prosperous
  • providential
  • pull
  • pulling down
  • pulling round
  • pulling through
  • purchase
  • pursuing
  • pursuit
  • racking up
  • rallying
  • reaching
  • reacquiring
  • realization
  • realizing
  • reaping
  • reattaining
  • recapturing
  • receipt
  • receiving
  • reception
  • recognition
  • recouping
  • recovering
  • recovery
  • recruiting
  • recuperating
  • redoubling
  • regaining
  • remaking
  • retrieval
  • reviving
  • ringing up
  • rising
  • rivaling
  • rivalling
  • rocketing
  • rolling up
  • rosy
  • run-in
  • salvage
  • satisfying
  • scoring
  • securing
  • seducing
  • seizing
  • seizure
  • selling
  • sitting pretty
  • skyrocketing
  • snapping back
  • snatching
  • snowballing
  • snowing
  • spreading
  • stepping up
  • stimulating
  • succeeding
  • successful
  • sunny side
  • surging
  • surpassing
  • surviving
  • swaying
  • sweep
  • swelling
  • taking
  • taking captive
  • taking in
  • taking into custody
  • taking on
  • taking over
  • tempting
  • thriving
  • tieing
  • timely
  • topping
  • touching
  • trapping
  • trip
  • triumphant
  • tying
  • undertaking
  • urging
  • victorious
  • waxing
  • wealthy
  • well-off
  • well-to-do
  • wheedling
  • winning
  • working
  • yes

sagaciousness

sageness

valuating

  • adjudging
  • analyzing
  • appraising
  • ascertaining
  • assaying
  • assessing
  • deciding
  • deeming
  • determining
  • discovering
  • estimating
  • evaluating
  • guesstimating
  • judging
  • learning
  • misesteeming
  • misjudging
  • misprizing
  • pricing
  • prizing
  • rating
  • re-evaluating
  • reappraising
  • reassessing
  • reevaluating
  • rejudging
  • revaluing
  • setting
  • settling
  • surveying
  • testing
  • transvaluating
  • transvaluing
  • underestimating
  • undervaluing
  • valuing

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