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ENCYCLOPAEDIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does encyclopaedic mean?
• ENCYCLOPAEDIC (adjective)
The adjective ENCYCLOPAEDIC has 1 sense:
1. comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia)
Familiarity information: ENCYCLOPAEDIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia)
Synonyms:
encyclopaedic; encyclopedic
Context example:
encyclopedic knowledge
Similar:
comprehensive (including all or everything)
Context examples
While Mary drew, Diana pursued a course of encyclopaedic reading she had (to my awe and amazement) undertaken, and I fagged away at German, he pondered a mystic lore of his own: that of some Eastern tongue, the acquisition of which he thought necessary to his plans.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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