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Encyclopedic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an encyclopedia.

adj. Embracing many subjects; comprehensive: "an ignorance almost as encyclopedic as his erudition” ( William James).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of or relating to the characteristics of an encyclopedia; concerning all subjects, having comprehensive information or knowledge.

adj. Relating to or containing encyclopedic information rather than only linguistic or lexical information; about facts and concepts, and not only a word or term; including proper names, biographical and geographical information and illustrations.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; broad in scope or content; embracing a wide range of subjects.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to or of the nature of an encyclopedia; relating to all branches of knowledge.

Possessing wide and varied information; specifically, possessing an extensive but fragmentary knowledge of facts rather than a comprehensive understanding of principles.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. broad in scope or content

Word Usage

"Within encyclopedic works, discussions of scientific topics were more likely to have been based on more recent studies than technological ones were."

Equivalent

comprehensive encyclopedical

Variant

encyclopaedic

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

encyclopaedical encyclopædical encyclopedical

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Hasidic comedic hasidic orthopedic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

3-101-1 Asbury lower-order encyclopaedic decennial