Antonyms for encyclopedic


Grammar : Adj
Spell : en-sahy-kluh-pee-dik
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˌsaɪ kləˈpi dɪk


Definition of encyclopedic

Origin :
  • 1824, from encyclopedia + -ic.
  • adj comprehensive
Example sentences :
  • His knowledge of all military appurtenances was encyclopedic.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry » by G. K. Rose
  • D'Alembert in his encyclopedic dictionary, writes the word caffé.
  • Extract from : « All About Coffee » by William H. Ukers
  • He is not a specialist in Roman law; but he is encyclopedic, which comes to the same thing.
  • Extract from : « The Ink-Stain, Complete » by Rene Bazin
  • The present is, on the whole, an encyclopedic, cosmopolitan era.
  • Extract from : « Modern Society » by Julia Ward Howe
  • Roger Bacon's Opus Majus also belonged to the encyclopedic class.
  • Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia » by Various
  • The article entitled "Charlatan" in the "Encyclopedic Dictionary" is filled with useful truths agreeably presented.
  • Extract from : « Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary » by Voltaire
  • Vincent of Beauvais was not the only one to occupy himself with work of an encyclopedic character during the thirteenth century.
  • Extract from : « The Popes and Science » by James J. Walsh
  • The deadly chagrin with which churchmen saw the encyclopedic fabric rising was very natural.
  • Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) » by John Morley
  • These were a broken and not continuous series on the theory of numbers, tolerably legible to the now encyclopedic Charles Vincent.
  • Extract from : « The Six Fingers of Time » by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty
  • These hasty citations are only a few of the many that I have drawn from Mr. Vining's encyclopedic compilation.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, » by Various

Synonyms for encyclopedic

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