A form of learning disorder, characterised by severe impairment in visual-spatial, motor and social skills. It is very similar to Asperger’s syndrome.

present participle of learn the hard way

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of learn the hard way

simple past tense and past participle of learn the hard way

To learn by experiencing the consequences of making mistakes.

e-learning for the purpose of learning to communicate in a different language

(artificial intelligence) A field of study concerned with the design and development of algorithms and techniques of automating the end-to-end process of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

(law, Australia, Britain, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada) A barrister on the opposing side of a dispute; a member of opposing counsel.

(linguistics) A word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a later one, but partly reshaped based on later sound changes or by analogy with inherited words in the language. These words occur, for example, in the Romance and the Indo-Aryan languages.

(figuratively) to learn to avoid repeating a mistake.