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encyclopedic
[ en-sahy-kluh-pee-dik ]
adjective
- pertaining to or of the nature of an encyclopedia; relating to all branches of knowledge.
- comprehending a wide variety of information; comprehensive:
an encyclopedic memory.
Synonyms: wide-ranging, exhaustive, all-inclusive, all-embracing
encyclopedic
/ ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪk /
adjective
- of, characteristic of, or relating to an encyclopedia
- covering a wide range of knowledge; comprehensive
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Derived Forms
- enˌcycloˈpedically, adverb
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Other Words From
- en·cyclo·pedi·cal·ly en·cyclo·paedi·cal·ly adverb
- nonen·cyclo·paedic adjective
- nonen·cyclo·pedic adjective
- nonen·cyclo·pedi·cal adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of encyclopedic1
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Example Sentences
There are those who have encyclopedic knowledge of it by this point.
It is a valiant, encyclopedic attempt of a star jurist to give voice(s) to an embattled philosophical position.
His memory is encyclopedic--a curse for a man who feels persecuted.
Timm felt that Spitz had “an encyclopedic knowledge of all figures of any importance in industry and economics throughout Europe.”
He is tensely and formally dressed on all occasions, with an encyclopedic memory of beer labels.
The present is, on the whole, an encyclopedic, cosmopolitan era.
She assisted her husband in the preparation of several statistical and scientific articles for the Encyclopedic.
The real artist is seldom a patient collector or an encyclopedic authority.
In a sense it is the chronicles of the Collinses transformed from the encyclopedic to the continuous narrative form.
The range of Roger Bacon's studies was encyclopedic, comprehending all the branches of learning then open to scholars.
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