ENDOWED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endowed mean? 

• ENDOWED (adjective)
  The adjective ENDOWED has 1 sense:

1. provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature)

  Familiarity information: ENDOWED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDOWED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature)

Context example:

endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights

Similar:

dowered (supplied with a dower or dowry)

Antonym:

unendowed (not equipped or provided)

 Context examples 

Because these cells are endowed with MHC-non-restricted killer activity, TALL-104 has destructive potential against a broad range of tumors, while sparing normal cells.

(Human MHC Non-Restricted Cytotoxic T-Cell Line TALL-104, NCI Thesaurus)

Time had altered her since I last beheld her; it had endowed her with loveliness surpassing the beauty of her childish years.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When a lady, young and full of life and health, charming with beauty and endowed with the gifts of rank and fortune, sits and smiles in the eyes of a gentleman you—I what?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I felt endowed with a sudden strength. What of my new-found love, I was a giant. I feared nothing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For where, Fanny, shall we find a woman whom nature had so richly endowed?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Though better endowed than the elder sister, Mary had not Anne's understanding nor temper.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He is also the one among us who is endowed with that Celtic temperament which would make him sensitive to such impressions.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy especially enjoyed this high honor, and became quite a belle among them, for her ladyship early felt and learned to use the gift of fascination with which she was endowed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was born in the year 18— to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellowmen, and thus, as might have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)