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
  • As higher education continued to develop, facilities and programs burnished scholarly reputations as modern universities emerged in cities like Paris and Bologna.
    Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Young Ed Klum was musical, scholarly, and athletic.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 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
  • Family members applauded and cheered, celebrating both his academic achievement and his birthday in unison.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • There’s no shortage of subjects to teach, whether academic or non-academic, and a variety of platforms to choose from.
    Morgan Smith, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of academic
Adjective
  • In Senegal, only 45.4% of women, compared to 68.4% of men are literate.
    Meghan McCormick, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Available on The Week Bookshop Middlemarch George Eliot, 1871 Lydia, my wonderful and vastly more literate wife, convinced me to read this after years of gentle persuasion.
    The Week UK, theweek, 27 Sep. 2024
Definition of literate
Adjective
  • 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
  • Some of the industry’s challenges come down to the need to change learned behaviors, Brugal said, rather than to physical or technical roadblocks.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 17 Oct. 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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