polymathic

English

Etymology

polymath + -ic

Adjective

polymathic (comparative more polymathic, superlative most polymathic)

  1. Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.
    Synonyms: (rare) multiscious, omnierudite
    • 2014 September 5, Rob Nixon, “Future Footprints”, in New York Times:
      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.
    • 2022 February 2, Max Abelson, “The Name of This Interviewee Is David Byrne”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      In advance of a show of his drawings at New York’s Pace Gallery, the polymathic performer answered T’s Artist’s Questionnaire.

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