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English Dictionary: talented by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
talented
adj
  1. endowed with talent or talents; "a gifted writer" [syn: talented, gifted]
    Antonym(s): talentless, untalented
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Talented \Tal"ent*ed\, a.
      Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally
      gifted. --Abp. Abbot (1663).
  
      Note: This word has been strongly objected to by Coleridge
               and some other critics, but, as it would seem, upon not
               very good grounds, as the use of talent or talents to
               signify mental ability, although at first merely
               metaphorical, is now fully established, and talented,
               as a formative, is just as analogical and legitimate as
               gifted, bigoted, moneyed, landed, lilied, honeyed, and
               numerous other adjectives having a participal form, but
               derived directly from nouns and not from verbs.
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