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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

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

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

"So you've chosen the blue-stocking, mother," said Dick.

From The Eldest Son by Marshall, Archibald

She may be attached to some paper or magazine; for the blue-stocking is as fashionable to-day as once she was disgraced.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various