endowed

[en-doud]

adjective

1. supported by a permanent fund or source of income.

   A cooperative owned by 50 families set up the endowed scholarship in 2000.

2. naturally possessing a certain quality, talent, physical feature, or other advantage, especially a sexually attractive feature.

   She bunched up the blouse behind her to look at herself and sighed at her modestly endowed body.

   Countries far less endowed than ours have made greater economic progress through greater coherence and unity of purpose.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of endow.

Other Word Forms

• unendowed adjective
• well-endowed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of endowed¹

endow ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

With incredible detail, he has reconstructed the ways a modest fund endowed by a reluctant heir managed to reshape American civil rights in less than 20 years.

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It was endowed with the profits that the U.S.

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Our Boy placed that child’s consciousness inside a synthetic body resembling an adult woman, then endowed that construct with superior strength, heightened reflexes and a supercomputer with remote hacking capabilities for a brain.

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Given the extensive abuse to which we subject mechanical helpers that aren’t endowed with consciousness, why wouldn’t they turn on us if they were?

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In short, they passed on to us a promise: that all people, every soul, in fact, is endowed by our Creator with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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