Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - -educated

1. -educated combines with nouns and adjectives to form adjectives indicating where someone was educated. ...the Oxford-educated son of a Liverpool merchant. ...an American-educated lawyer. COMB in ADJ 2. -educated combines with adverbs to form adjectives indicating how much education someone has had and how good it was. Many of the immigrants are well-educated. ...impoverished, undernourished, and ill-educated workers. COMB in ADJ