savantish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]savantish (comparative more savantish, superlative most savantish)
- Characteristic of a savant
- 2004 March 26, Monica Kendrick, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- […] drummer Rives Elliott comes in with eight-plus minutes of savantish backbeat for front man Arrington de Dionyso to rant and preach over.
- 2007 March 18, Bob Shacochis, “Headline News”, in New York Times[2]:
- The savantish 11-year-old interjects naïve, untested idealism; the landlord provides the rapacious entrepreneurial spirit that vacuums capitalism clean of conscience.