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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  talented 
  adj  :  showing  a  natural  aptitude  for  something  [syn:  {gifted}] 




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