1
: having great natural ability : talented
gifted children
2
: revealing a special gift
gifted voices
giftedly
adverb
giftedness
noun
Examples of gifted in a Sentence
He's an extremely gifted student.
a school for gifted children
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That’s fair, for in many ways Venables’s music — with its operatic heights and meditative chants, its detours from classical through bossa nova and Irish jig — is the soul of the thing, revealed in all its richness and variety by the hugely gifted ensemble.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
Arsenal are blessed with some gifted players who are not playing a great deal of Premier League minutes.
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But Marty Supreme also bears the stamp of a gifted auteur carving out his own space with his own signature and his own deep connection to New York past and present.
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In the heyday of YouTube vlogging, we were gifted this fast-paced, addictively retelling of Pride and Prejudice.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
Arsenal are blessed with some gifted players who are not playing a great deal of Premier League minutes.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
But Marty Supreme also bears the stamp of a gifted auteur carving out his own space with his own signature and his own deep connection to New York past and present.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 1 Dec. 2025
In the heyday of YouTube vlogging, we were gifted this fast-paced, addictively retelling of Pride and Prejudice.
—Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
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“Gifted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gifted. Accessed 6 Dec. 2025.
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gifted
adjective
gift·ed
ˈgif-təd 
: having great natural ability
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