GIFTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gifted mean? 

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

1. endowed with talent or talents

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIFTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Endowed with talent or talents

Synonyms:

gifted; talented

Context example:

a gifted writer

 Context examples 

“But I don't know what he might be to a gifted person.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"This is an excellent monograph by my gifted friend, Ray Lankester!" said he.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She has man's brain—a brain that a man should have were he much gifted—and a woman's heart.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Were he but gifted with imagination he might rise to great heights in his profession.

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

At such times the intruder silently withdrew, and not until the red bow was seen gaily erect upon the gifted brow, did anyone dare address Jo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Perhaps you will use some of the holiday cash gifted from family to buy some beautiful things, like new linens or tabletop items.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It seemed as if Mr Shepherd, in this anxiety to bespeak Sir Walter's good will towards a naval officer as tenant, had been gifted with foresight; for the very first application for the house was from an Admiral Croft, with whom he shortly afterwards fell into company in attending the quarter sessions at Taunton; and indeed, he had received a hint of the Admiral from a London correspondent.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Her merit in being gifted by Nature with strength and courage was fully appreciated by the Miss Bertrams; her delight in riding was like their own; her early excellence in it was like their own, and they had great pleasure in praising it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He agreed to it, but with so quiet a Yes, as inclined her almost to doubt his real concurrence; and yet there must be a very distinct sort of elegance for the fashionable world, if Jane Fairfax could be thought only ordinarily gifted with it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)