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

The senior official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "The United States remains committed to the Declaration of Independence's recognition that all men are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights."

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"The United States remains committed to the Declaration of Independence's recognition that all men are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights," a senior State Department official said on customary condition of anonymity.

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The revolutionary overhaul endowed the Mary Rose with the greatest naval military innovation of its time: hinged gunports.

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A nation that declared independence on the premise that men are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” finds its own existential premise skewed and even contradicted if rights are granted otherwise.

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His book reveals the amazing transformation of a young man into a fully formed writer, endowed with a concise yet suggestive style.

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