polymathic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "In advance of a show of his drawings at New York’s Pace Gallery, the polymathic performer answered T’s Artist’s Questionnaire."
Etymology
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.
Inflected Forms
more polymathic (comparative)
most polymathic (superlative)