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adjective

Definition of giftednext
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as in privileged

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as in talented

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verb

past tense of gift
as in blessed
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute gifted with an uncanny ability to persuade people to do things they ordinarily wouldn't

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Recent Examples of gifted
Adjective
About 13% and 18% of students in gifted programs are Black and Hispanic, compared to a quarter and 37% who are white and Asian, according to 2024-25 school year data, the most recent available. — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026 In addition, Chris Coy plays a suspiciously nervous truck driver, Waylon Sanders; Cary Christopher plays a gifted child named Noah; Laura Linney will play a senior Guardian; and Paula Patton will appear in an as-yet-undisclosed guest role. — ArsTechnica, 25 July 2026
Verb
Ao Tanaka was guilty of the loose touch in the centre circle, which gifted possession to Davis Keillor-Dunn for Wrexham’s counter and Smith’s winner. — Beren Cross, New York Times, 26 July 2026 Her Imagination Library, founded in 1995 in honor of her father, who never learned to read or write, has now gifted more than 300 million books to children. — Debbie Millman, Time, 25 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for gifted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gifted
  1. privileged
  2. talented
  3. blessed
  4. fortunate
  5. inspired
  6. endowed
  7. lucky
  8. favored
Adjective
  • The backstory Mount Igeldo is famed as the spot where the privileged hide away from it all.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Privileged access management assumes privileged activity can be monitored through sessions, approvals and after-the-fact investigation.
    — Oded Hareven, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of privileged
Adjective
  • Valentino Giovanni Luchin is a man in his 60s with two wildly different legacies — he is known as a talented, hardworking Italian chef and an inept bank robber.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Or talented people are placed on an initiative that is underfunded, poorly defined or no longer important.
    — Ozan Ozerk, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of talented
Verb
  • One of her most significant feats was leading a team of artists over the course of a decade to illustrate a massive New Testament Bible written by hand in the Old Georgian language — an endeavor blessed by the Georgian Patriarch himself.
    — The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 28 July 2026
  • Shein decamped to London, where Britain's regulator approved the listing but the CSRC, China's securities regulator, never blessed it.
    — Drew Bernstein, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of blessed
Adjective
  • Taylor said the Bengals were fortunate, but added that Stewart will miss several weeks.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • Join a club or a service organization, sign up for a gym or volunteer to help others who are less fortunate.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 29 July 2026
Definition of fortunate
Adjective
  • Zendaya mixed high jewelry from Chopard and Messika with sculptural gold pieces by Fope, along with ancient inspired accessories including headpieces, ear cuffs, diamond chokers and gladiator sandals.
    — Alex Badia, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
  • Despite his inspired play, Scheffler is 0-for-3 on the current major circuit.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Definition of inspired
Verb
  • Seeing an old bulky PC with a PC-DOS command line OS takes those of us of a certain age back to the heady days when computers were exciting and new, even though they had not yet been endowed with the eerie cognitive powers of LLMs.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 July 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
Definition of endowed
Adjective
  • For some lucky Housewives, the show has been a springboard to newfound fortune and independence.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026
  • No one won the jackpot or the $1 million Match 5 prize, but one lucky person in Wisconsin won the $2 million Match 5 + Power Play prize, according to Powerball's website.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of lucky
Adjective
  • This dynamic that has produced a glut of companies in favored sectors like green technology, electric vehicles, and semiconductors, chasing far more customers than the market, domestic or global, can support.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 29 July 2026
  • Listenupshance was the surprise winner of Saturday’s Grade I Bing Crosby Stakes in a race marred by a right front leg injury to the favored Cornucopian.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026
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