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Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous. examples
(figuratively) Having an interest in a variety of subjects. quotations examples
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
(figuratively) All-consuming. examples