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polymathic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English polymath Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English polymathic From polymath + -ic.

Meanings

  1. Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.
    • In advance of a show of his drawings at New York’s Pace Gallery, the polymathic performer answered T’s Artist’s Questionnaire. 2022 February 2, Max Abelson, “The Name of This Interviewee Is David Byrne”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • Is it uncharitable to want a book that achieves so much to do more? Perhaps. Taken on its own terms, “The Human Age” is a dazzling achievement: immensely readable, lively, polymathic, audacious. 2014 September 5, Rob Nixon, “Future Footprints”, in New York Times:

Forms

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most polymathic Degree=Sup lexicographic
more polymathic Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

polymathically

Synonyms

multiscious · omnierudite

Translations (4)

es polifacético (pertaining to polymathy) · cmn 博學的 /博学的 (pertaining to polymathy) · id polimatik (pertaining to polymathy) · fr polymathique (pertaining to polymathy)