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encyclopedic

/en-sahy-kluh-pee-dik/US // ɛnˌsaɪ kləˈpi dɪk //UK // (ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪk) //

百科全书,百科全书式,百科全书式的,百科全书类

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or of the nature of an encyclopedia; relating to all branches of knowledge.
    • : comprehending a wide variety of information; comprehensive: an encyclopedic memory.

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Examples

  • Even though she served for six years as Cuomo’s lieutenant, Hochul—a trim 63-year-old Irish Catholic with a voice like Caroline Kennedy and a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the Buffalo Bills—is in many ways an accidental governor.

  • A historian with two masters’ degrees and an encyclopedic knowledge of Roman coins, Freeman says they didn’t look medieval, Viking, or Roman—the most common categories of pre-modern artifacts that cross her desk.

  • Lawrence said his encyclopedic knowledge of different forms of music began at an early age.

  • Bryant has an encyclopedic knowledge of public affairs and popular culture — think of what would happen if George Packer and Rick Perlstein teamed up — and he uses the combination to make striking, and often surprising, links.

  • With such variety, there’s no way this episode can be remotely encyclopedic.

  • There are those who have encyclopedic knowledge of it by this point.

  • It is a valiant, encyclopedic attempt of a star jurist to give voice(s) to an embattled philosophical position.

  • His memory is encyclopedic--a curse for a man who feels persecuted.

  • Timm felt that Spitz had “an encyclopedic knowledge of all figures of any importance in industry and economics throughout Europe.”

  • He is tensely and formally dressed on all occasions, with an encyclopedic memory of beer labels.

  • The present is, on the whole, an encyclopedic, cosmopolitan era.

  • She assisted her husband in the preparation of several statistical and scientific articles for the Encyclopedic.

  • The real artist is seldom a patient collector or an encyclopedic authority.

  • In a sense it is the chronicles of the Collinses transformed from the encyclopedic to the continuous narrative form.

  • The range of Roger Bacon's studies was encyclopedic, comprehending all the branches of learning then open to scholars.