gifted

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪftɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪftɪd

Adjective

gifted (comparative more gifted, superlative most gifted)

1. Endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities.

   a gifted artist

   a school for gifted children

   • 2023 November 3, Angus Holland, “‘I don’t think of it at all as a gift’: Why it’s complicated being a gifted child”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎^[1], Australia, archived from the original on 8 September 2025:

     For argument’s sake, though, being “gifted” in a general sense can be described as possessing an intellect that processes information faster, learns concepts quicker and retains knowledge more readily than most, allowing it to exponentially explore ever more complex ideas and to make increasingly insightful connections. “They learn rapidly, they have an excellent memory and they reason well. These are the sorts of characteristics I’d note,” says Judy Parker, who has spent much of her career testing for giftedness.

Synonyms

• talented
• See also Thesaurus:intelligent

Derived terms

• gifted education
• giftedly
• giftedness
• nongifted
• overgifted
• ungifted

Translations

endowed with special abilities

• Azerbaijani: istedadlı (az), zəkalı
• Belarusian: здо́льны (zdólʹny)
• Bulgarian: талантлив (bg) (talantliv), даровит (bg) (darovit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 老天爺賞飯吃 / 老天爷赏饭吃 (lǎotiānyé shǎngfànchī)

• Danish: begavet (da)
• Dutch: begaafd (nl), hoogbegaafd (nl)
• Estonian: andekas
• Finnish: lahjakas (fi)
• French: doué (fr), surdoué (fr)
• Georgian: ნიჭიერი (nič̣ieri), ტალანტის მქონე (ṭalanṭis mkone), ნიჭით დაჯილდოებული (nič̣it daǯildoebuli), უნარიანი (unariani)
• German: begabt (de), geistvoll (de), begnadet (de)
• Hindi: गुणी (hi) (guṇī)
• Hungarian: tehetséges (hu)
• Icelandic: gáfaður
• Irish: éirimiúil, tréitheach
• Italian: dotato (it)
• Kazakh: дарынды (darındı)
• Latvian: apdāvināts
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: begavet (no)

• Plautdietsch: begoft
• Russian: одаренный (ru) (odarennyj)
• Swedish: begåvad (sv)
• Turkish: becerikli (tr), kabiliyetli (tr), yetenekli (tr)

Verb

gifted

1. simple past and past participle of gift

Noun

gifted (plural gifteds)

1. A person who has special abilities or unusually great intellect.
   • 1961, The Spectator, volume 206, page 141:

     […] the gifteds would have to sit on a side table, getting cramp, or lean against the wall, sliding off into vertigo.

   • 1964, William Kirtley Durr, The Gifted Student, page 37:

     […] the gifteds' social characteristics were more common than sensible. The belief prevailed that gifted students were withdrawn, scared, rejected subjects who were more to be pitied than emulated.

Anagrams

• fidget

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English gifted.

Adjective

gifted

1. (slang) well-endowed; having a large penis