gifted
- 1Having a natural talent or skill that is much greater than most people's.
Like being born already knowing how to do something most people work years to learn.
She is a gifted painter who sold her first work at twelve.
The school runs special classes for gifted students.
Similartalented, brilliant, able, accomplished, skilled
Oppositeuntalented, inept
- 2Simple past and past participle of gift. Use it for giving something as a present in the past.
She gifted her old bike to a younger neighbor.
They gifted the library a box of rare books last spring.
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- 3Having the mental and emotional traits linked to very high natural ability.
Like a plant that grows much faster than the others in the same garden.
The gifted children in the program think and learn far faster than their classmates.
Teachers learn how to support gifted students who feel different from their peers.
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gifted is a form of gift
gift, verb: To give something to someone as a present. Full entry
- Spelling
- gift → gifted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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