OMNISCIENT Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

omniscient

adjective

as in almighty

formal knowing everything; having unlimited understanding or knowledge an omniscient deity The novel has an omniscient narrator.

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Recent Examples of omniscient Not only that, but far from being omniscient, impersonal and impartial oracles, machine learning results can be heavily conditioned by the quality of the input data and by the assumptions in the machine learning algorithm’s modeling. —

Federico Guerrini, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024 Back in 2018, Hale County served as a gentle rebuke to the totalizing, omniscient approach of so many au courant and supposedly objective longitudinal documentaries, movies shot over years that purported to examine and explain the lives of marginalized people. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024 Most recently, Rossellini has enjoyed a streak of scene-stealing supporting turns as the aristocratic mother of Josh O’Connor’s absent lover in La Chimera, the omniscient narrator in Problemista, and a talking shell in A24’s big-screen adaptation of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. —

Keaton Bell, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024 Narrators that seemed close have proved omniscient: Catherine spilling what’s inside Robert’s head and what’s inside her son’s flat, where she’s surely never invited. —

Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for omniscient

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Adjective

Argentina reached the semifinals of Copa America but had an almighty scare in the process.

— Paul Tenorio, The Athletic, 5 July 2024
At the end of the day, capitalism trumps nativism and regardless of one’s party affiliation, the almighty dollar rules.

— Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024