encyclopedic
or en·cy·clo·pae·dic
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.
Origin of encyclopedic
1- Also en·cy·clo·pe·di·cal, en·cy·clo·pae·di·cal .
Other words for encyclopedic
Other words from encyclopedic
- en·cy·clo·pe·di·cal·ly, en·cy·clo·pae·di·cal·ly, adverb
- non·en·cy·clo·pae·dic, adjective
- non·en·cy·clo·pe·dic, adjective
- non·en·cy·clo·pe·di·cal, adjective
Words Nearby encyclopedic
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How to use encyclopedic in a sentence
Even though she served for six years as Cuomo’s lieutenant, Hochul—a trim 63-year-old Irish Catholic with a voice like Caroline Kennedy and a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the Buffalo Bills—is in many ways an accidental governor.
Kathy Hochul Faced Childcare Struggles and Sexism at Work. Now She’s New York’s First Woman Governor | Charlotte Alter | September 30, 2021 | TimeA historian with two masters’ degrees and an encyclopedic knowledge of Roman coins, Freeman says they didn’t look medieval, Viking, or Roman—the most common categories of pre-modern artifacts that cross her desk.
How Scotland forged a rare alliance between amateur treasure hunters and archaeologists | Corinne Iozzio | August 24, 2021 | Popular-ScienceLawrence said his encyclopedic knowledge of different forms of music began at an early age.
Elliot Lawrence, 1940s bandleader who conducted Tony Award shows, dies at 96 | Matt Schudel | July 21, 2021 | Washington PostBryant has an encyclopedic knowledge of public affairs and popular culture — think of what would happen if George Packer and Rick Perlstein teamed up — and he uses the combination to make striking, and often surprising, links.
A modern-day historian writes the timeline of American decline | Jacob S. Hacker | April 2, 2021 | Washington PostWith such variety, there’s no way this episode can be remotely encyclopedic.
How to Make Meetings Less Terrible (Ep. 389) | Stephen J. Dubner | September 19, 2019 | Freakonomics
There are those who have encyclopedic knowledge of it by this point.
There Are More 'Too Many Cooks' Where That First Fever Dream Came From | Kevin Fallon | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt 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.
Modern Society | Julia Ward HoweShe assisted her husband in the preparation of several statistical and scientific articles for the encyclopedic.
Brave Men and Women | O.E. FullerThe real artist is seldom a patient collector or an encyclopedic authority.
Suspended Judgments | John Cowper PowysIn a sense it is the chronicles of the Collinses transformed from the encyclopedic to the continuous narrative form.
Kentucky in American Letters, v. 1 of 2 | John Wilson TownsendThe range of Roger Bacon's studies was encyclopedic, comprehending all the branches of learning then open to scholars.
British Dictionary definitions for encyclopedic
encyclopaedic
/ (ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪk) /
of, characteristic of, or relating to an encyclopedia
covering a wide range of knowledge; comprehensive
Derived forms of encyclopedic
- encyclopedically or encyclopaedically, adverb
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