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polymathic

polymathic adjective: pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

Adjective

polymathic (comparative more polymathic, superlative most polymathic)

  1. Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.
    • 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
    • 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

polymathic meaning in Bengali and Indonesian

polymathic in Bengali

বহুবিদ্যা, বহুবিদ সংক্রান্ত

polymathic in Indonesian

pertaining to polymathy
polimatik

Synonyms of polymathic

Forms of polymathic

comparativemore polymathic
superlativemost polymathic

Origin of polymathic

From polymath + -ic.

Words formed from polymathic

Questions about polymathic

What does polymathic mean?
Polymathic means pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.
What is polymathic in Bengali?
Polymathic in Bengali is বহুবিদ্যা, বহুবিদ সংক্রান্ত. See Polymathic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is polymathic?
Polymathic is an adjective.

Words near polymathic in the dictionary

  1. polymastoid
  2. polymasty
  3. polymath
  4. polymathe
  5. polymathes
  6. polymathic
  7. polymathically
  8. polymathist
  9. polymathists
  10. polymaths
  11. polymathy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polymathic (page history and authors); polymathic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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