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experienced

[ik-speer-ee-uhnst]

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adjective

wise or skillful in a particular field through experience: an experienced teacher.

having learned through experience; taught by experience: experienced through adversity.

endured; undergone; suffered through: experienced misfortunes.

Origin:
1560–70; experience + -ed²

Related forms

non·ex·pe·ri·enced, adjective

qua·si-ex·pe·ri·enced, adjective

un·ex·pe·ri·enced, adjective

well-ex·pe·ri·enced, adjective

Synonyms
1. skilled, expert, practiced, veteran, accomplished, versed, adept, qualified.

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In polls, voters say they want experienced nominees to run for president.

Career advice and counseling, for beginners and experienced academics alike.

The researchers found that those trained with action games raised their performance to the level of the experienced gamers.

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In polls, voters say they want experienced nominees to run for president.

Career advice and counseling, for beginners and experienced academics alike.

The researchers found that those trained with action games raised their performance to the level of the experienced gamers.

Then, a novice must jump with an experienced skydiver.

People who have directly experienced flooding are more likely to be worried about climate change, according to a new study.

As a new exhibition makes clear, what they experienced would.

Even experienced cooks can find it intimidating to make pie pastry.

Women of both political parties, it should be noted, experienced no significant testosterone changes on election night.

It isn't that the other candidates are not experienced or knowledgeable.

During the economic downturn, the nation's community colleges have experienced extraordinary growth under duress.

China has experienced a rapid increase in private-sector employment and urban migration.

Within the last decade, the town has experienced a huge influx of people from the central city and other suburbs.

Recent research has revealed abnormal patterns of brain activation in people who have experienced psychological trauma.

Journey the trails with experienced guides in period costumes.

Experienced plant sale veterans recommend arriving early for the best selection.

They have experienced reversible metabolic hibernation.

Commish24 notes that her campus had experienced several unexpected disruptions that they struggled to handle.

But they are also less experienced job hunters, less mobile, less skilled and often the first to be fired.

Explore the valley with experienced guides while staying in permanent lodges or seasonal bush camps.

Experienced meditators are calmer in their response to daily stress and perform better at tasks that require focused.

These tequilas have experienced exponential demand and high prices.

For this reason, experienced gardeners tend to be skeptical about lists of deerproof plants.

Rocksmith engages experienced musicians and those who pick up a guitar for the first time.

Must be an experienced artist who will teach courses in all levels of contemporary dance technique and choreography.

Some welcome the idea of an experienced manager in a field that cries out for better management.

One experienced hunter jumps on the moose's rump and gouges its thigh muscles.

The subjects' brain patterns were recorded both as they experienced pain and zero pain.

Just before the end of her six-week expedition, she experienced her longed-for encounter.

Tour urban chicken coops all over the city and chat with experienced chicken owners.

But really, for my immediate family, it was something experienced from afar.

Her replacement wasn't any more experienced in furniture.

Experienced heads from around the globe could save everyone time and money.

It's only an experienced team effort that keeps everyone safe from the snapping jaws.

Oklahoma recently experienced its strongest earthquake ever and some suggest drilling for oil and gas may have played a role.

Everyone in the room had experienced the same performance pressure that had caused the boy to fail.

Heeger is also an experienced home vegetable gardener herself.

Yet it is still fun and challenging enough for mixed groups and more experienced gamers.

Recently the country has experienced strong economic growth.

Experienced buyers know at a glance where a bag of uncut stones originates.

Some experts consider the ship's demise a fluke-it was built to ply icy waters and was helmed by an experienced captain.

Monitors were instructed to soothe patients via supportive talk or touch if they experienced any anxiety.

Work from high school students is screened alongside that of more experienced animators, inviting unfair comparisons.

Our family has become quite experienced in emergency planning.

Metals in particular experienced some of the biggest moves in decades.

Ralston is experienced in the backcountry, and that experience builds confidence.

And yet experienced singers compete well with all man-made instruments, one on one and even paired with full.

Victims experienced high fever, chills and excruciating pain.

But finding those hidden options may not be intuitive to less experienced web users.

Smaller outfits saw the crisis as an opportunity to bulk up by hiring experienced staff from struggling or failing banks.

Maynard has personally experienced many fingerprint-related snafus, often related to employment.

The same was true for those who experienced fewer negative emotions in their dreams.

These people never experienced an industrial revolution.

Your more experienced fellow campers will undoubtedly have a small stove.

Even with several highly experienced professors in the mix, no one wanted the job.

Even experienced programmers make on average one error for every ten lines of code.

And while there are inherent risks, experienced skydivers say serious injuries and fatalities are few and far between.

In addition, he notes, some volunteers experienced flulike symptoms as well as.

Every experienced canyoneer seems to have a story or two about a close call.

Not only did the mice live longer, but a few experienced a rapid and complete recovery.

Talk with them and see if they have experienced the same feelings you have and find out what they have done about.

The state has experienced a minor semiconductor boom in part because of its cheap, coal-fired power.

Open-sea fish populations across the globe have experienced dramatic declines in recent decades.

Those exposed to the refined fish oil experienced none of those symptoms.

Maybe that's why smarter and more experienced architects couldn't make it work.

Yet this new emphasis on experienced actors makes some sense:.

Wilson, will offer her perspective on integrating new but experienced faculty members.

Britain has recently experienced the largest wave of immigration in its history.

But the experienced tracker with a keen eye and lucid imagination can find tales of death and survival.

Species are becoming extinct at rates greater than that experienced during the fifth extinction.

In the second year of his presidency, he experienced severe hearing loss due to quinine toxicity.

The award-winning writer has experienced a turbulent week of jail and court injunctions.

Across the world, higher education has experienced dramatic changes in recent years.

Hardly any of these are seen as experienced managers, let alone competent ones.

Traditional strongholds in western regions have also experienced big rises.

In particular, happy men experienced lower heart rates throughout.

On a good day, an experienced fossil excavator might uncover only a few inches of skeleton.

Steiner said the practice has grown increasingly prevalent of late, fueled by experienced auction buyers competing for bargains.

Men who preferred women with symmetrical breasts could well have experienced an evolutionary benefit as a.

Many complain that it has been difficult to find experienced candidates.

The cave's entrance is the second deepest in the world, so the trip is dangerous even for experienced explorers.

The exposure to women in particular is much more than experienced running through a cornfield.

Nor do you experience the nonstop scoring experienced during pro basketball.

It may be that the media has convinced consumers the current recession will be far worse than anything they've experienced.

We even show the same brain activity as if we'd experienced the pain ourselves.

Yamaha made the bike gentle enough for n00bs who want to build skills but sporty enough to keep experienced riders grinning.

Many experienced observers wonder whether intentions are always the best to begin with.

On the other hand, the sensation you feel while flying is unlike anything you've experienced.

But no country has experienced anything on this scale.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.

the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.

the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time: to learn from experience; the range of human experience.

knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience.

Philosophy. the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.

verb (used with object)

to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea.

to learn by experience.

Idiom

experience religion, to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin experientia, equivalent to experient- (stem of experiēns, past participle of experīrī to try, test; see ex-¹, peril) + -ia noun suffix; see -ence

Related forms

ex·pe·ri·ence·a·ble, adjective

ex·pe·ri·ence·less, adjective

post·ex·pe·ri·ence, adjective

pre·ex·pe·ri·ence, noun, verb (used with object), -enced, -enc·ing.

re·ex·pe·ri·ence, verb, -enced, -enc·ing.

Synonyms
6. encounter, know, endure, suffer. Experience, undergo refer to encountering situations, conditions, etc., in life, or to having certain sensations or feelings. Experience implies being affected by what one meets with: to experience a change of heart, bitter disappointment. Undergo usually refers to the bearing or enduring of something hard, difficult, disagreeable, or dangerous: to undergo severe hardships, an operation.

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World English Dictionary

experienced (ɪkˈspɪərɪənst)

—*adj*
	having become skilful or knowledgeable from extensive contact or participation or observation

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Word Origin & History

experience

late 14c., from O.Fr. experience, from L. experientia "knowledge gained by repeated trials," from experientem (nom. experiens), prp. of experiri "to try, test," from ex- "out of" + peritus "experienced, tested." The v. (1530s) first meant "to test, try;" sense of "feel, undergo" first recorded 1580s.

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Medical Dictionary

experience ex·pe·ri·ence (ĭk-spēr'ē-əns)
n.
The feeling of emotions and sensations as opposed to thinking; involvement in what is happening rather than abstract reflection on an event.

ex·pe'ri·ence v.

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