omnivorous

Etymology

From omni- + -vorous; from the Latin omni, all and -vore.

adj

  1. Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
  2. (figurative) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
    The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete. 1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a critical excursion, page 57
    He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […] 2003, Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press, page 72
  3. (figurative) All-consuming.

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