Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or characterized by polymathy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

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

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Examples

  • Amidst the polymathic free-for-all, Wonder took many forms.

    Max Lugavere: Wonder, Rediscovered

  • Bueno de Mesquita and Smith are polymathic, drawing on economics, history and political science to make their points.

    It's Good to Be Boss

  • He left his company, now called Harman International Industries , in 2007, and had been spending much of his time teaching at the University of Southern California where he was a professor of polymathic study.

    Newsweek Buyer Sidney Harman Dead at 92

  • Yet a more immediate highlight of the program came when Simon, 69, came out with his guitar and the polymathic string player Mark Stewart here on cello to sing a song he wrote just months after Kennedy's assassination in 1963, "The Sound of Silence."

    A grand display

  • Despite the fact that she calls herself polymathic in her career, wearing pretty dresses puts her in such a good mood that she says, "Ultimately, I want to be a housewife...wear pretty dresses and carry my kids around in matching outfits."

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  • You watch every first-run episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” from episode one through one sixty-eight as a diagnosed autodidactic, polymathic sponge and there's no way something doesn't rub off on you.

    Why I Write

  • It is also refreshing, and possibly redemptive, to be reminded of a time when scientists composed poetry as Charles Darwin's polymathic grandfather, Erasmus, did praise of steel and when the idea that agronomy and geology and metallurgy were as vital and as exciting as any of the arts.

    A Revolution Of the Mind

  • Despite the fact that she calls herself polymathic in her career, wearing pretty dresses puts her in such a good mood that she says, "Ultimately, I want to be a housewife...wear pretty dresses and carry my kids around in matching outfits."

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  • The hard truth is that despite Colker's polymathic achievements (she studied and performed as a pianist for 12 years, she tells us in the programme, as well as studying psychology and playing professional volleyball), she has no talent as a choreographer beyond a basic, broad-brush facility.

    Cruel; In Pieces

  • Despite the fact that she calls herself polymathic in her career, wearing pretty dresses puts her in such a good mood that she says, "Ultimately, I want to be a housewife...wear pretty dresses and carry my kids around in matching outfits."

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