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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
talented
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a talented cast
▪ It's a fantastic production with an enormously talented cast.
a talented/accomplished actor
▪ Jacobsen was one of the most accomplished actors of his generation.
a talented/gifted individual
▪ He had taken a group of talented individuals and built a superb team.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ In reality, no concatenation of highly talented individuals ever made a great film.
▪ I have a highly talented son who, right or wrong, I have committed myself to.
▪ A highly talented writer and a compelling public speaker, he quickly became the best-known left-wing agitator in Derry.
more
▪ Of course, she's much more talented than I am.
▪ There are clearly people who are more talented as innovators than others but their talents lie in well-defined areas.
▪ Because, miraculously, you become more talented as you become thinner.
▪ Great Groups are always created by people willing, even eager, to recruit people more talented than they.
▪ There are so many people out there who are talented it way more talented than me, whose music never gets heard.
▪ They probably thought their daughter more talented and adventurous than anyone could be.
most
▪ Mark Moreso, one of the most talented boys the scheme will ever see, had a different problem.
▪ But most talented people have little incentive to defer to an individual without a strong moral core.
▪ He is also without any doubt at all by far the most talented and charismatic singer-songwriter-storyteller in Britain.
▪ But organizations can also do a lot to ensure the rise of their most talented people.
▪ Of them all, he was the most talented.
▪ Recruiting the most talented people possible is the first task of anyone who hopes to create a Great Group.
▪ Commission officials say that they sought out the most talented people in each field, regardless of gender or race.
▪ All three are marvelous musicians; all three are players who have to be listed among the most talented in jazz.
very
▪ But let's take nothing away from the Portrush champions - they are a very talented outfit.
▪ Holtz could see that Alvin was very talented, and he was impressed by the scope of his plans.
▪ Well, he seems very talented.
▪ Michigan is a very talented team.
▪ Susannah York was very talented but spoiled.
▪ They'd lost, he said, 2 very talented young ladies.
▪ They were very, very talented.
■ NOUN
artist
▪ Grigson thinks that all the Lascaux paintings were executed by one hand, the work of a talented artist.
▪ They opened with a show in which several talented artists were represented.
▪ Birch was also a talented artist.
▪ She was a talented artist and had considerable personal charm.
▪ Lear was educated by his sisters, Ann and Sarah, both talented artists, who also taught him to draw.
▪ He was adept with his hands, a talented artist, and a skilled fisherman who made his own flies and rods.
cast
▪ The musical numbers were excellently performed by an extremely talented cast.
chef
▪ The talented chef uses buckwheat soba noodles effectively.
individual
▪ In this way the self-interested use of power can restrict the recruitment of talented individuals to highly rewarded positions.
▪ This is the key to success in a league full of incredibly talented individuals.
▪ In reality, no concatenation of highly talented individuals ever made a great film.
▪ Kitson, Crick and Clarke were all talented individuals who disagreed strongly with the prevailing establishment views in their field.
▪ The board has encouraged local clubs to nominate particularly talented individuals for the fund.
man
▪ It's an enormous mystery why this talented man never made it. 1967: Respect, by Aretha Franklin.
▪ He was a decent, talented man who used drugs.
musician
▪ He sang in the choir, was a talented musician and a keen sportsman.
▪ After that he would go to medical school and become a doctor who was also a handsome and talented musician and athlete.
▪ My late cousin, Norman, who was a very talented musician, shared the same opinion.
▪ All four were talented musicians and difficult people, in varying degrees.
people
▪ Many critics have questioned the functionalists' emphasis on the limited availability of talented people in societies.
▪ And some talented people are simply disruptive.
▪ They were a resourceful and talented people.
▪ The talented people who make up Great Groups are not easily led.
▪ Promotion prospects for talented people were slim.
▪ But most talented people have little incentive to defer to an individual without a strong moral core.
▪ We are one of the leading science nations and we attract many more talented people to this country than we lose.
▪ But organizations can also do a lot to ensure the rise of their most talented people.
player
▪ They have talented players and can overcome the 4-2 deficit against Spartak Moscow.
▪ Where are all these talented players hiding?
▪ But Mains was gaining confidence, and talented players - many of them attracted to Otago by various means from outside unions.
▪ Is it possible the Cal basketball team is better when it starts less talented players?
▪ The team is still in a transitional phase but there are a number of very talented players in their line-up.
▪ He's probably one of the most talented players out there.
team
▪ There is also the chance of a lifetime for the talented teams who win through to the final.
▪ Michigan is a very talented team.
▪ They seemed to have the most talented team, but they just got by.
▪ Carolina is far and away the most talented team in the country.
writer
▪ You're a very talented writer.
▪ It takes a unique and talented writer to tell our human stories so that they seem fresh.
▪ A highly talented writer and a compelling public speaker, he quickly became the best-known left-wing agitator in Derry.
youngster
▪ She says too many talented youngsters have to go to London.
▪ Please keep us informed if you know of any talented youngsters. 4.
▪ It would be an opportunity to foster civic pride and to identify talented youngsters.
▪ Britain has few specialist music schools outside London, which means a lot of travelling for many talented youngsters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a talented journalist
▪ The Brazilian team includes some highly talented young players.
▪ The musicians are talented and enthusiastic about their new venture.
▪ The show has talented actors, but the writing is poor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After that he would go to medical school and become a doctor who was also a handsome and talented musician and athlete.
▪ He loved both the outdoor life and the companionship of genial and talented colleagues.
▪ In this way the self-interested use of power can restrict the recruitment of talented individuals to highly rewarded positions.
▪ It adds up to just what we might expect, in fact, from a talented, energetic and fashionably leftish folk-rock group.
▪ Of course, this also means Dunston, played by an adorable and talented ape named Sam, gets all the laughs.
▪ The musical numbers were excellently performed by an extremely talented cast.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Talented

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
talented

1630s, "having skills or abilities," from talent (n.). There was a verb talent in 15c., but it meant "predispose."

Wiktionary
talented

a. endowed with one or more talents.

WordNet
talented

adj. showing a natural aptitude for something [syn: gifted]

Usage examples of "talented".

Lepi, who though a hunchback was very talented and an excellent actress, was sure of exciting desire by the rare beauty of her eyes and teeth, which latter challenged admiration from her enormous mouth by their regularity and whiteness.

There are lots of talented students who will help you develop your artwork, logos and advertising materials.

Prime, the first ever to be born on Altair, an exceptionally unique Prime, more talented, more powerful, more agoraphobic, more lonely, than any other Prime yet known in the Nine Star League.

Perhaps you have even guessed that my name is indeed Ali Baba, and, especially you noisy lot in the back, perhaps you forget that I once was one of the most talented of woodcutters, and have retained a facility for the exacting use of exceedingly sharp instruments.

And if there did happen to be a bartender who did his job perfectly, then some people would feel bad to see such a talented person with such a bleaky job.

Some very talented practitioners need only a few minutes of silence to reach that coveted goal.

Some talented artist had painted fishnet stockings, a frilly white garter belt, a lacy white cupless bra and tiny white crotchless panties on her tanned skin.

The Determinists and the Absolutists were all but going at each other with knives, and the two most talented designers had been literally having tea with each other as two of their aides met in the hall in a set-to that other aides had had to break up by main force.

And in the special film did Poopy Panda appear enhaloed, and the talented kid performers did do him worship, and Otto Clodd did trip over his feet whilst kneeling, and Jackie Whipple did urge in manly and sincere wise that all the Poopy Panda Pals out there in television-land do likewise, and the enhaloed Poopy Panda did say in his lovable growly voice, Poop-poop-poopy.

An-Nami was one of the ablest and most talented poets of his time, but inferior to Mutanabbi, with whom he had some encounters and contests in reciting extemporary verses when they were at the court of Saif ad Dawlah together.

Word had it that the behir keeper in this city was a talented generalist wizard who specialized in the breeding of magical creatures.

Entertaining feelings of gratitude for my kind host, and disposed to listen attentively to his poem, I dismissed all sadness, and I paid his poetry such compliments that he was delighted, and, finding me much more talented than he had judged me to be at first, he insisted upon treating me to a reading of his idylls, and I had to swallow them, bearing the infliction cheerfully.

I cannot deny these premises, but I will answer that I was only twenty years of age, I was intelligent, talented, and had just been a poor fiddler.

He had an exceedingly ugly sister, who for all that, was a good and talented woman.

Consequently, when Premislas and his still more talented brother Stephen were ordered by the Council of Ten to enjoy the vast sums they had gained at play in their own country, they resolved to become adventurers.