Encyclopedic

Word ENCYCLOPEDIC
Character 12
Hyphenation en cy clo ped ic
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Definitions and meanings of "Encyclopedic"

What do we mean by encyclopedic?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of an encyclopedia. adjective

Embracing many subjects; comprehensive. adjective

Pertaining to or of the nature of an encyclopedia; relating to all branches of knowledge.

Possessing wide and varied information; specifically, possessing an extensive but fragmentary knowledge of facts rather than a comprehensive understanding of principles.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; broad in scope or content; embracing a wide range of subjects. adjective

Of or relating to the characteristics of an encyclopedia; concerning all subjects, having comprehensive information or knowledge. adjective

Relating to or containing encyclopedic information rather than only linguistic or lexical information; about facts and concepts, and not only a word or term; including proper names, biographical and geographical information and illustrations. adjective

Broad in scope or content adjective

Of or relating to the characteristics of an encyclopedia; concerning all subjects, having comprehensive information or knowledge.

Relating to or containing descriptive information rather than only linguistic or lexical information; about facts and concepts, and not only a word or term; including proper names, biographical and geographical information and illustrations.

Having enormous intellectual capability to retain and repeat information Urban Dictionary

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The word "encyclopedic" in example sentences

It is a colorless reference volume in encyclopedic format lacking in dimension. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Would it be valedictorian Hillary, primly showing off her knowledge of issues in encyclopedic detail? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Within encyclopedic works, discussions of scientific topics were more likely to have been based on more recent studies than technological ones were. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The first principle of Wasserman's approach was the autonomy of the text, its freedom from authorial intention, social history, politics, amd every day life (though one was expected to know all this in encyclopedic detail so as to be able to demonstrate the de facto as well as de jure autonomy of the text). ❋ Unknown (1997)

The first principle of Wasserman's approach was the autonomy of the text, its freedom from authorial intention, social history, politics, and every day life (though one was expected to know all this in encyclopedic detail so as to be able to demonstrate the de facto as well as de jure autonomy of the text). ❋ Unknown (1997)

He responded that the guide could not be "encyclopedic" -- without any indication the minister might not have been responsible for the removal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These interests are often coupled with an unusually high capacity to retain and recall encyclopedic amounts of information about the favored subject. ❋ Neal Ford (2005)

Besides these, in the ninth century Monte Cassino comes into prominence as an institution where much was done of what we would now call encyclopedic work. ❋ James Joseph Walsh (1903)

Secondly, concentration at once discards the idea of encyclopedic knowledge as an aim of school education. ❋ Charles Alexander McMurry (1893)

Much of his culture was literally encyclopedic, that is, gleaned from encyclopedias, so he should not be mistaken for a Gianfranco Contini or an E. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Its self-styled "encyclopedic" collection is dispersed among eight buildings on a 20-acre "campus" on the north side of Wilshire Boulevard. ❋ David Littlejohn (2010)

One of the liner notes I read used the word "encyclopedic" to describe how he had soaked in every blues lick ever - not to mention the work of Jimi Hendrix - then let it marinate before sending it back out. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These are what the literary critic Northrop Frye called "encyclopedic" narratives, along with Finnegans Wake, say, or Delany's Dhalgren, or Stapledon's Starmaker. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Before the mashup, this kind of encyclopedic knowledge was useless, and could only function to annoy others on a long road trip, or to sap the energy of those standing near enough to me while I rant about the motherfucking Pussycat Dolls rewriting "I Will Survive" without even knowing that's what they were doing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And why exactly is it that Wikipedia wants content removed for not being "encyclopedic", anyway? ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

For someone who claims to have an "encyclopedic" knowledge of history and politics, it's strange that Karl Rove doesn't understand that the legacy of the Kennedy administration -- which was actually closer to three years long -- wasn't sealed by what it did but by how it ended. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Great Regulars: Allen Ginsberg's poetry has the earmarks of what Columbia professor Edward Mendelson has called "encyclopedic" writing full range of cultural knowledge, commentary on statecraft, starting point of exile or illegality, giants and gigantism, etc., which also means it's going to be good and bad in about equal measure, since everything goes into an encyclopedia. ❋ Rus Bowden (2006)

But there's a difference between what he deems the "encyclopedic" approach (500 best doctors, 2,000 best schools, 3,000,000 things you could do on the corner of 79th and Lexington with a banana and some gummy worms) and being an authority on "how to beat the system." ❋ Unknown (2004)

[Einstein] was [wicked smart] and had an encyclopedic [brain]. ❋ Mark Juras (2008)

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