knowledgeable

highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

• “an enlightened public”
• “knowing instructors”
• “a knowledgeable critic”
• “a knowledgeable audience”

thoroughly acquainted with and skilled in something through study or experience

• “well versed in classical languages”

alert and fully informed

• “politically aware”
• “a knowing collector of rare books”
• “the most...technically aware of the novelists under thirty” W.S.Graham
• “surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on”

thoroughly acquainted with through study or experience

• “this girl, so intimate with nature” W.H.Hudson
• “knowledgeaIble about the technique of painting” Herbert Read