experienced

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having experience

   I was an experienced captain, so I had no trouble in the stormy seas.

2. 2
   adj

   Having experience and skill in a subject.

   The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.

3. 3
   adj

   Experient.

4. 4
   verb

   simple past and past participle of experience

Etymology

From experience + -ed.