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TALENTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does talented mean?
• TALENTED (adjective)
The adjective TALENTED has 1 sense:
1. endowed with talent or talents
Familiarity information: TALENTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Endowed with talent or talents
Synonyms:
gifted; talented
Context example:
a gifted writer
Antonym:
untalented (devoid of talent; not gifted)
Context examples
I know they would be clever, for you are a talented creature!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The more talented you are at communicating your thoughts, the better you will do.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The beauty, fashion, and exclusiveness of Port Middlebay, flocked to do honour to one so deservedly esteemed, so highly talented, and so widely popular.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
An institutional-level award designed to improve the quality of training in clinical research, attract talented individuals to the challenges of clinical research, and to provide them with the critical skills that are needed to translate basic discoveries into clinical treatments.
(Clinical Research Curriculum Award (CRCA), NCI Thesaurus)
But I was going to say that while I was dawdling about abroad, I saw a good many talented young fellows making all sorts of sacrifices, and enduring real hardships, that they might realize their dreams.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Most of these so-called competitors are not nearly as talented as you, so keep your focus on your own performance, and don’t worry about your competitor’s next moves.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Gentlemen especially are often in request on such occasions; and Mr. Rochester is so talented and so lively in society, that I believe he is a general favourite: the ladies are very fond of him; though you would not think his appearance calculated to recommend him particularly in their eyes: but I suppose his acquirements and abilities, perhaps his wealth and good blood, make amends for any little fault of look.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"And then," I continued, though I have only sisterly affection for him now, yet, if forced to be his wife, I can imagine the possibility of conceiving an inevitable, strange, torturing kind of love for him, because he is so talented; and there is often a certain heroic grandeur in his look, manner, and conversation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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