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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-informed |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, accomplished, bookish, brainy, conversant, cultivated, cultured, deep*, educated, erudite, esoteric, experienced, expert, grave, grounded, highbrow, in the know, intellectual, judicious, lettered, literary, literate, omniscient, pansophic, pedantic, philosophic, philosophical, polymath, posted, professorial, recondite, sage, sapient, scholarly, scientific, sharp, skilled, solemn, solid, sound, studied, studious, versed, well-educated, well-grounded, well-read, well-rounded |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, stupid, uninformed |
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* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | child prodigy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very gifted young person |
| Synonyms: | boy wonder, genius, gifted child, gifted student, girl wonder, phenom, polymath, prodigy, sensation, talented child, whiz kid, wonder, wonder child, wunderkind |
| Main Entry: | whiz kid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gifted student |
| Synonyms: | boy wonder, child prodigy, comer, genius, gifted child, girl wonder, phenom, polymath, prodigy, quiz kid, sensation, talented child, wonder, wunderkind |
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Example Sentences
- Part literary critic, part existential elegist, he presents himself as the polymath's polymath.
- The polymath's polymath on his epic cookbook, patent-licensing and the law, and why he's getting into nuclear power.
- He has been a polymath all his life, plunging into one discipline after another.
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