Synonyms of endowed

endowed

verb

past tense of endow

1

as in gifted

to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute

a young performer endowed with a great singing voice

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gifted
• blessed
• equipped
• favored
• invested
• provided
• endued
• supplied
• clothed
• empowered
• awarded
• granted
• bequeathed
• accorded
• conferred (on)
• enriched
• enabled
• enhanced
• bestowed (on or upon)
• willed
• heightened
• covered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stripped
• divested
• exhausted
• dispossessed
• drained
• depleted
• stinted
• skimped

2

as in funded

to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income

a wealthy businessman who endowed several museums

Synonyms & Similar Words

• funded
• financed
• established
• founded
• supported
• organized
• subsidized
• donated
• bequeathed
• granted
• awarded
• contributed
• promoted
• sponsored
• subscribed
• backed
• underwrote
• capitalized
• invested (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• received
• drew
• disendowed
• defunded
• subsisted

3

as in financed

to provide money for

the program to bring the arts to inner-city youths is endowed by a grant from the federal government

Synonyms & Similar Words

• funded
• financed
• subsidized
• supported
• capitalized
• staked
• bankrolled
• sponsored
• underwrote
• endorsed
• maintained
• aided
• backed
• advocated
• championed
• paid
• nourished
• provided (for)
• patronized
• stood
• paid up
• refinanced
• defrayed
• liquidated
• grubstaked
• paid off
• cofinanced
• footed
• settled
• sprang (for)
• recompensed
• discharged
• refunded
• cleared
• quit

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• defunded

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of endowed

That we, as human beings, have been endowed with the ability to channel that creativity fills me with a sense of awe and wonder. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026

The show was considered an outlier in its generally sympathetic take on Hill and his conservative views, as well as in terms of the agency with which the show’s creators endowed its working- and middle-class characters. — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Aug. 2026

Someone who might have the answers is fan-favorite franchise staple Elise (Lin Shaye), a medium who commutes between both worlds, here via the body of a tattoo artist (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) endowed with paranormal gifts. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026

When a Columbus nursing home that served aging African Americans was sold, a resulting gift endowed the Isabelle Ridgway Foundation, a supporting organization of the Columbus Foundation. — Laura MacDonald, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

But they’re endowed with a fundamentally different intelligence, one shaped by a separate evolutionary path and defined by a nervous system that’s distributed throughout their bodies rather than centralized like that of the brains of most animals. — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026

For professors who studied literary themes and metaphors for a living, theory endowed their scholarship with the armature of a larger purpose, transforming textual analysis into jargony skirmishes in a crusade for social justice. — Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

So does the king’s loyal swineherd, Eumaeus (John Leguizamo), who, in this telling, has gone blind and is thus endowed with near-Tiresian powers of perception. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Official liberalism had long been almost inextricably identified with a picture of man as perfectible, as endowed with sufficient wisdom and selflessness to endure power and to use it infallibly for the general good. — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026