polymathic

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.
    • Is it uncharitable to want a book that achieves so much to do more? Perhaps. Taken on its own terms, “The Human Age” is a dazzling achievement: immensely readable, lively, polymathic, audacious. - 2014 September 5, Rob...
    • In advance of a show of his drawings at New York’s Pace Gallery, the polymathic performer answered T’s Artist’s Questionnaire. - 2022 February 2, Max Abelson, “The Name of This Interviewee Is David Byrne”, in The New...

    Synonyms: multiscious omnierudite

Origin

Etymology tree English polymath Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English polymathic From polymath + -ic.

Forms

more polymathic most polymathic

Derived

polymathically