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

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

From Salon

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.

From Salon

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?

From Salon

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.

From Salon

Also last year, the university established an endowed program and chair in Palestinian and Arab studies.

From Los Angeles Times