polyhistoric

adjective

Definition of polyhistoricnext
as in polymathic

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  1. scholarly
  2. erudite
  3. academic
  4. literate
  5. learned
  6. bookish
Adjective
  • There is a lot of scholarly research regarding the ins and outs of wintertime blues.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • But plenty of scholarly studies have confirmed formaldehyde’s presence in our everyday lives and mirror our findings.
    Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of scholarly
Adjective
  • The final version, thanks to its production and Antonoff plumbing the lower depths of his voice, recalls the erudite, hooky gloom of the Magnetic Fields refracted through string lights on their final bit of wattage. 35.
    Maura Johnston, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Like a slightly more erudite and discriminating, but also kinky, Judy Blume!
    Alysia Reiner, Flow Space, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of erudite
Adjective
  • In the contemporary world, the Divine Nine boasts diverse growth and development programs, serving their respective communities through camaraderie, academic excellence, and educational, cultural, and economic activities.
    Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Jie Shan and Kin Fai Mak, an academic power couple who run a lab at Cornell University, had been searching for superconductivity in TMDs since Jarillo-Herrero’s blockbuster twisted-graphene discovery in 2018.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of academic
Adjective
  • When her friends started getting divorced a few years later, a lot of them didn’t have any money, weren’t financially literate, and felt trapped.
    Ginger Gentile, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Everett’s Jim is not the caricature often associated with Twain’s portrayal but a literate, introspective man whose intellect and strategic thinking shine through.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of literate
Adjective
  • Although resource guarding is an innate behavior for some dogs, others might develop it as a learned behavior.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Floating above it all was an air of learned majesty, a cool radiance that compelled admiration but, in the centuries since, has not always spurred delight.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of learned
Adjective
  • The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.
    Scott Brown, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Bryce Young is bookish, too.
    Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2022
Definition of bookish
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