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单词 omniscient
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Definition of omniscient in English:

omniscient

adjective ɒmˈnɪsɪənt
  • Knowing everything.

    无所不知的

    a third-person omniscient narrator

    一个无所不知的第三人称叙述者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The narrative voice is part character and part omniscient narrator.
    • An omniscient author knows everything about everybody in the story.
    • It is also true that you can't be omniscient; you can't see everything, everywhere.
    • In stanzas twelve through fourteen, the omniscient narrator directs our eye to the movement of the skies.
    • The tone of the Times report was narrative bordering on omniscient.
    • Deconstruction theory and the decline of the omniscient narrator demonstrate a newfound humility.
    • That seems like odd behavior for an omniscient and omnipotent designer.
    • After all, science is not yet omniscient in the present world.
    • All us omniscient narrators were getting together to have a few laughs and a few drinks.
    • I wanted an omniscient narrator to have a kind of ‘looking back on it all now’ perspective.
    • All three films forgo the assistance of an omniscient narrator, and let the subjects tell their own stories.
    • Being omniscient, I know such activity is more or less commonplace, but I trust that you will do what is right.
    • In paradise, the omniscient narrator concludes, there are no stories because there are no journeys.
    • They say " om " representing the omniscient power of God in the universe.
    • At several points the narrator interjects with omniscient knowledge of historical information which he alone has privileged access to.
    • Yet there are no laws to regulate this omniscient spy system.
    • If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants?
    • As Prague's omniscient narrator explains, the game is fundamentally flawed.
    • An omnipotent and omniscient being, however, would know that such an action was about to take place, and would be able to prevent it.
    • It's certainly more cinematic than many comics for the simple fact that it has no thought balloons and no omniscient narrator.
    Synonyms
    all-knowing, all-wise, all-seeing

Derivatives

  • omnisciently

  • adverb
    • She put her hand on the table staring omnisciently at the model.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is no personal god omnisciently watching over your every move and waiting at the end of the road to judge you.
      • He notices as though he has been watching over omnisciently.
      • What they do contain is fact, interpretation, and commentary, delivered omnisciently.
      • This is the flaw in treating the play as a theatrical fantasy conjured up by Prospero: if he is omnisciently running the show, nothing can ever go wrong.
      • A white aerostat blimp looms omnisciently above, launched below from Ft. Huachuca, the country's largest military intelligence complex.
      • Barker never writes omnisciently; even in the third person, the narration is always told from one character or another's point of view.
      • That is, the author disappears as the story teller, and the history reads omnisciently.
      • You are expected as a doctor to be calm, absolutely competent at all time - omnisciently so - you have absolutely no margin of error.
      • Here the singer expresses a rather queasy fantasy - that of being able to control, or at least omnisciently observe, his lover's errant sexual behavior.

Origin

Early 17th century: from medieval Latin omniscient- 'all-knowing', based on scire 'to know'.

Definition of omniscient in US English:

omniscient

adjective
  • Knowing everything.

    无所不知的

    the story is told by an omniscient narrator

    一个无所不知的第三人称叙述者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All us omniscient narrators were getting together to have a few laughs and a few drinks.
    • The narrative voice is part character and part omniscient narrator.
    • It's certainly more cinematic than many comics for the simple fact that it has no thought balloons and no omniscient narrator.
    • After all, science is not yet omniscient in the present world.
    • As Prague's omniscient narrator explains, the game is fundamentally flawed.
    • I wanted an omniscient narrator to have a kind of ‘looking back on it all now’ perspective.
    • Being omniscient, I know such activity is more or less commonplace, but I trust that you will do what is right.
    • If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants?
    • An omnipotent and omniscient being, however, would know that such an action was about to take place, and would be able to prevent it.
    • They say " om " representing the omniscient power of God in the universe.
    • In paradise, the omniscient narrator concludes, there are no stories because there are no journeys.
    • The tone of the Times report was narrative bordering on omniscient.
    • An omniscient author knows everything about everybody in the story.
    • Deconstruction theory and the decline of the omniscient narrator demonstrate a newfound humility.
    • At several points the narrator interjects with omniscient knowledge of historical information which he alone has privileged access to.
    • It is also true that you can't be omniscient; you can't see everything, everywhere.
    • All three films forgo the assistance of an omniscient narrator, and let the subjects tell their own stories.
    • In stanzas twelve through fourteen, the omniscient narrator directs our eye to the movement of the skies.
    • That seems like odd behavior for an omniscient and omnipotent designer.
    • Yet there are no laws to regulate this omniscient spy system.
    Synonyms
    all-knowing, all-wise, all-seeing

Origin

Early 17th century: from medieval Latin omniscient- ‘all-knowing’, based on scire ‘to know’.

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