omnivorous
adj/ɑmˈnɪ.vɝ.əs/
Etymology From omni- + -vorous.
1
Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
2
Figuratively Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
- The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete.1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a critical excursion, page 57:
- He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]2003, Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press, page 72:
3
Figuratively All-consuming.
- Derived terms
- omnivorously, omnivorousness