Eclectic vs Versatile - What's the difference?
eclectic | versatile |
Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
* 1893 , John Robson, Hinduism and its Relations to Christianity , page 211, 214
Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
* 1983 , Peter J. Wilson, Man, the Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution , page 140
* 2006 , W. Frederick Zimmerman, Should Barack Obama Be President? , page 153
Capable of doing many things competently.
Having varied uses or many functions.
Changeable or inconstant.
(biology) Capable of moving freely in all directions.
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As adjectives the difference between eclectic and versatile
is that eclectic is selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles while versatile is capable of doing many things competently.As a noun eclectic
is someone who selects according to the eclectic method.eclectic
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Alternative forms
* eclectick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Chunder Sen and the Progressive Brahmists broke entirely with Hinduism...and he selected from the scriptures of all creeds what seemed best in them for instruction and for worship. It is an eclectic' religion: it seeks to select what is good from all religions, and it has become the latest evidence that no ' eclectic religion can ever influence large numbers of men.
- All members of the Hominoidea, apes and man, show an eclectic taste in food but select, from a wide range of possibilities, only a few to provide the bulk of their diet.
- Colvin said Obama has an eclectic taste in music, listening to everything from Indonesian flute music to OutKast to Motown.