polymath

Noun

Meaning

a person of great and varied learning

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

renaissance man einstein ninja comer wizard brainiac maven artist sage savant brain academic learned master intellectual
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Antonyms

poon sap dodo prat nit plover
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Hypernyms

savant initiate pundit learned person

Related terms

polymathy automath polymathist

Examples

That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end. Daniel Bell

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. Karl Kraus

Polyglot, polymath and mythomane. Anthony Burgess

I once heard Susan Sontag, in conversation with Umberto Eco, define the polymath as one "who is interested in everything, and in nothing else.”. Christopher Hitchens

As polymath While making his grand tour of European archives to research the Brunswick family history that he never completed, Leibniz stopped in Vienna between May 1688 and February 1689, where he did much legal and diplomatic work for the Brunswicks. Source: Internet

A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

polymastodont polymastoid polymasty polymathe polymathic polymathically