learnedly
In an educated and knowledgeable manner.
Adverb
- In an educated and knowledgeable manner.
- The professor spoke learnedly for an hour about his abstruse scholarship; but he couldn't string two words together to speak to the pretty woman.
Origin
Etymology tree English learned Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English learnedly From learned + -ly.