endowed

/ɛnˈdaʊd/

When you're stuck on a really tricky math problem, you might ask your best friend for help, especially if she happens to be endowed with impressive mathematical skills. Endowed means "provided or equipped with."

When you have a special ability, you can say you're endowed with it. You can also be endowed with a quality, like beauty. Endowed is often used to describe something you're born with, though it can also refer to something that's been learned. Endowed traditionally meant "provided with money," especially when it came to a woman's dowry, the money she brought into a marriage. It's still used this way when someone donates, or endows, money to an institution.

Definitions of endowed

1. adjective

   provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature)
   “a well-endowed college”

   “endowed with good eyesight”

   “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”

   synonyms:

   dowered

   supplied with a dower or dowry

   antonyms:

   unendowed

   not equipped or provided

   dowerless

   lacking a dowry

   unblessed

   not provided with something desirable