Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Skilful in any or every kind of work.
Wiktionary
- adj. Skilled in all kinds of work.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Skilled in all kinds of work.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek. See pan- and -urgy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Rousseau trembled with fury, and as soon as the transport was over, he wrote an indignant reply, in which he more or less politely bade the panurgic one to attend to his own affairs, and hinted that Grimm was making a tool of him.”
“There were giants in this world, like the panurgic Diderot.”
“University, -- no less panurgic and less encyclopædic a critic than”
“I guess panurgic, phestus, and gorkypark weren't enough names for you to pretend you have support for your insane conspiracy theories.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘panurgic’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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JLaughWork's Words
sesquipedalian, perspicacity, fervid, onomatopoeia, eschatology, prognostication, pedagogue, expiation, integrity, metamorphosis, supercilious, xenophilia and 229 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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Look Busy
Get to work!
ergophobia, elucubrate, karoshi, dogsbody, forswonk, moil, deft, assiduous, panurgic, paperasserie, bumf, blackleg and 91 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Verbophile's Words
callidity, evirate, calcitrate, periplus, versipel, dout, putanism, subvene, repristinate, impleach, ferruginate, incrassate and 153 more...
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Authoring words of Authority
effendi, authentic, prefect, sire, author, axiom, behest, anchorite, imprimatur, volition, alcalde, sheik and 34 more...
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Mafflard's list
Words that I enjoy greatly.
aeipathy, aerumnous, agelastic, airling, apricity, antipelargy, atechny, bayard, cimicine, dulcarnon, elozable, elucubration and 31 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for panurgic.

grant_barrett This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day. Nov 11, 2009
pavonine apt or ready in all kinds of work Nov 6, 2007