encyclopedic
Americanadjective
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pertaining to or of the nature of an encyclopedia; relating to all branches of knowledge.
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comprehending a wide variety of information; comprehensive.
an encyclopedic memory.
- Synonyms:
- wide-ranging, exhaustive, all-inclusive, all-embracing
adjective
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of, characteristic of, or relating to an encyclopedia
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covering a wide range of knowledge; comprehensive
Other Word Forms
- encyclopaedically adverb
- encyclopedically adverb
- nonencyclopaedic adjective
- nonencyclopedic adjective
- nonencyclopedical adjective
Etymology
Origin of encyclopedic
First recorded in 1815–25; encycloped(ia) + -ic
Example Sentences
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Expansion, he said, is important for an encyclopedic museum, responsible for chronicling art history across many genres, geographies and media.
From Los Angeles Times
Famous for his encyclopedic knowledge of the benchmark stock index and his fast-paced Brooklyn burr, he has been a markets data maven for everyone from Wall Street analysts to financial journalists.
Rubin’s skills, former colleagues say, included an encyclopedic recall, the ability to explain his bets in plain English and a high threshold for risk.
She was hired as the first curator exclusively devoted to such art in any encyclopedic American museum in 2001, a year after the DIA created a Center for African American Art.
In some ways, we see, early national museums anticipated fairs’ encyclopedic ambitions.
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