encyclopedicen‧cy‧clo‧pe‧dic (also encyclopaedic British English) /ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdɪk◂/ adjectiveExamples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Haspiel has an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Anyway, there's a bit of a lull at the moment before I start helping out with the encyclopedic dictionary.
Eleven appendices packed with valuable cross-curricular and cultural information. ... to the world's first encyclopedic learner's dictionary!
Expanded entry giving extra encyclopedic information 2.
He excelled particularly in the natural sciences, in which his knowledge was described as encyclopedic.
Hoffman possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of Precambrian continental geology.
I had thought that Jasper, who was encyclopedic about so many things, would know what a nucleotide is.
It was an encyclopedic work, setting out the concept of a universal language as a comprehensive taxonomic structure.
That choice makes the book eclectic rather than encyclopedic.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►encyclopedic knowledge
an encyclopedic knowledge of medieval literature
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►knowledge
· Hoffman possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of Precambrian continental geology.· Many have expansive interests and encyclopedic knowledge.· On the plus side, there is the encyclopedic knowledge of the subject at hand.
having a lot of knowledge or information about a particular subject: an encyclopedic knowledge of medieval literature