experienced

/ɛkˈspiriɪnst/

/ɛkˈspiəriənst/

Someone experienced has first-hand knowledge of something. A 10-year veteran is an experienced baseball player.

Experience is time you spend doing or learning something. If you've had a job as a welder, you have welding experience. When someone is described as experienced, it means they have first-hand knowledge about something. An experienced teacher has been teaching for years. An experienced writer has written many books or articles. An experienced soldier has been in the field for a while. People who are experienced tend to be wise: they know what they're talking about.

Definitions of experienced

1. adjective

   having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
   synonyms: experient

   full-fledged, fully fledged

   (of persons, e.g.) having gained full status

   intimate, knowledgeable, versant, versed

   thoroughly acquainted through study or experience

   old, older

   skilled through long experience

   practiced, practised

   skillful after much practice

   seasoned, veteran

   rendered competent through trial and experience

   skilled

   having or showing or requiring special skill

   tough, toughened

   physically toughened

   antonyms:

   inexperienced

   lacking practical experience or training

   callow, fledgling, unfledged

   young and inexperienced

   new, raw

   lacking training or experience

   naive, uninitiate, uninitiated

   not initiated; deficient in relevant experience

   unpracticed, unpractised, unversed

   not having had extensive practice

   unseasoned, untested, untried, young

   not tried or tested by experience

   unskilled

   not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency

   naif, naive

   marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience