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blue-stocking

ADJECTIVE
cultured
Synonyms
STRONGEST
accomplished civilized cultivated educated enlightened erudite genteel intelligent knowledgeable literate polite refined sophisticated tolerant urbane
STRONG
advanced informed lettered polished traveled understanding versed
WEAK
able aesthetic appreciative au courant chivalrous courteous distingue elegant gallant high-class highbrow intellectual liberal literary mannerly savant scholarly sensitive tasteful up-to-date well-informed
Antonyms
STRONGEST
ignorant rude stupid uncivilized uncultured uneducated uninformed unrefined unsophisticated
WEAK
inexperienced

Example Sentences

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"Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

She wanted to be broad-minded if she could, for she was rather a blue-stocking.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I had treasured up sundry little anecdotes touching my journey homeward, which, if related with dramatic skill, might excite a smile on your face, O laughter-loving blue-stocking!

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward

She was extremely accomplished, not merely in the accomplishments of a blue-stocking but in art, and even in housewifery.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George