polyhistoric

adjective

Definition of polyhistoricnext
as in scholarly

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  1. scholarly
  2. erudite
  3. literate
  4. academic
  5. cultivated
  6. cultured
  7. bookish
  8. cerebral
Adjective
  • Tornau is now working to publish the sermons for the first time in a scholarly edition after nearly two years of research.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
  • Konchalovsky’s miniseries certainly can’t be accused of being a scholarly work, but there is something distinctly Homeric about its tone and the fact that, above all, its goal is to entertain.
    — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
Definition of scholarly
Adjective
  • Prolific author and erudite British import David Thomson has been writing about film for more than six decades.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
  • Original host Dave Garroway was an erudite guide who shaped the mix of news, lifestyle and human interest stories that still define morning news programs.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 June 2026
Definition of erudite
Adjective
  • Hitler came to power in a highly literate Germany, but the Nazis took advantage of movies and radio to push simple messages with immediate emotional impact.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 27 July 2026
  • In 1636, when Harvard University opened its doors to train Puritan ministers, administrators assumed that the entering class was highly literate – not only in English, but in Greek and Latin, as well.
    — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
Definition of literate
Adjective
  • The board sets education policy, maintains academic standards, and oversees educational licenses and the accreditation system.
    — Zuri Primos July 26, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
  • The system will be installed at NTHU’s College of Semiconductor Research (CoSR) and used for academic research as well as joint development projects with Taiwan’s semiconductor industry.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 July 2026
Definition of academic
Adjective
  • The home is located on a quarter-acre of native and cultivated gardens and houses an art studio and yurt.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2023
Definition of cultivated
Adjective
  • The necklace is made up of 178 diamonds totaling about 52 carats and another seven South Sea cultured pearls.
    — Marta Martínez Tato, Vanity Fair, 23 July 2026
  • The collapse of the Gulf pearling industry — which began in the late 1920s on the arrival of cheaper Japanese cultured pearls — brought widespread poverty to the region, until the discovery of oil shortly after.
    — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of cultured
Adjective
  • The Album, Bryce Savage’s not-so-bookish gurglefest about femme fatales.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
  • Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
Definition of bookish
Adjective
  • His appreciation for Twardzik, a tough and cerebral floor general for the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1970s, is a deeper cut.
    — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • As of late July, box-office analysts that Vulture spoke with expect Doomsday to beat out Denis Villeneuve’s finale to his cerebral sci-fi trilogy, at the very least in its opening weekend.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 30 July 2026
Definition of cerebral
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“Polyhistoric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyhistoric. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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