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adjective

Definition of giftednext
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as in privileged

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as in talented

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verb

past tense of gift
as in blessed
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute gifted with an uncanny ability to persuade people to do things they ordinarily wouldn't

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Recent Examples of gifted
Adjective
Now opera lovers can see these gifted singers in the Merola Grand Finale, directed by Claire Choquette and Merola’s Carrie-Ann Matheson. — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026 The Strathmore Rose Tiara was gifted to the Queen Mother on her wedding day in 1923. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
That was the case Wednesday, when the Giants received six solid innings from starter Adrian Houser but gifted the Astros the tying run in the seventh. — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026 The piece of art, gifted by a fan to Grisham and then claimed by McMahon as his own, is in the style of a police sketch. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gifted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gifted
  1. privileged
  2. talented
  3. blessed
  4. fortunate
  5. inspired
  6. endowed
  7. lucky
  8. favored
Adjective
  • The growing popularity of democratic socialists and their values represents a political challenge for Republicans because these candidates advocate popular policies aimed primarily at working Americans rather than the wealthy and privileged.
    — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Chats with chatbots are not private or privileged, and conversations may be stored, used to train future models, reviewed by humans or surfaced in a data breach.
    — Megan Kelly, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of privileged
Adjective
  • Alex is a talented dominatrix, heroin addict, and the most powerful, magnetic and beautiful woman in every room.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Anthony Fasano shared the tight end room in Kelce’s first two years in Kansas City — which Kelce lovingly refers to as his knucklehead days — and described a talented player teetering of the edge of blowing an opportunity.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of talented
Verb
  • America is blessed to have billionaire entrepreneurs who accomplish such things.
    — Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • So a team at Anthropic thought Claude, free of mortality and blessed with superhuman invulnerability to boredom, should have a go.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of blessed
Adjective
  • Many other opposition figures in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia have been less fortunate.
    — Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Postseason series wins are based on fortunate timing and randomness, with some small amount coming from talent advantages.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of fortunate
Adjective
  • Zendaya mixed high jewelry from Chopard and Messika with sculptural gold pieces by Fope, along with ancient inspired accessories including headpieces, ear cuffs, diamond chokers and gladiator sandals.
    — Alex Badia, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
  • Despite his inspired play, Scheffler is 0-for-3 on the current major circuit.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Definition of inspired
Verb
  • Seeing an old bulky PC with a PC-DOS command line OS takes those of us of a certain age back to the heady days when computers were exciting and new, even though they had not yet been endowed with the eerie cognitive powers of LLMs.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • But they’re endowed with a fundamentally different intelligence, one shaped by a separate evolutionary path and defined by a nervous system that’s distributed throughout their bodies rather than centralized like that of the brains of most animals.
    — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
Definition of endowed
Adjective
  • Those lucky enough to score an example will also get access to a matching Porsche Design chronograph.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2026
  • While the long-legged aisle-hoggers among us might not relate, travelers lucky enough to settle into the window seat on certain flight routes can look forward to quite the show ahead of touchdown.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of lucky
Adjective
  • This dynamic that has produced a glut of companies in favored sectors like green technology, electric vehicles, and semiconductors, chasing far more customers than the market, domestic or global, can support.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 29 July 2026
  • Listenupshance was the surprise winner of Saturday’s Grade I Bing Crosby Stakes in a race marred by a right front leg injury to the favored Cornucopian.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026
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