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Endowed vs Unendowed - What's the difference?

endowed | unendowed |

As adjectives the difference between endowed and unendowed

is that endowed is pertaining to an endowment, as with an endowed chair at a university while unendowed is not endowed.

As a verb endowed

is (endow).

endowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (endow)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to an endowment, as with an endowed chair at a university.
  • Derived terms

    * well-endowed

    unendowed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not endowed
  • *{{quote-book, year=1688, author=E. Farr and E. H. Nolan, title=The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III., chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Those parish ministers who had seceded were about two hundred and forty, or one-fourth of the whole number; the unendowed ministers, about two hundred, or about one-third of the entire clergy of Scotland. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1889, author=George (George Augustus) Moore, title=Mike Fletcher, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=For Cooper was unendowed with worldly shrewdness, and, like all dreamers, was attracted by a mind which controlled while he might only attempt to understand. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Winston Churchill, title=The Dwelling Place of Light, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=She was not at all sure whether she believed in an after life,--a lack of faith that had, of late, sorely troubled her friend Eda Rawle, who had "got religion" from an itinerant evangelist and was now working off, in a "live" church, some of the emotional idealism which is the result of a balked sex instinct in young unmarried women of a certain mentality and unendowed with good looks. }}