omniscient

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++om·nis·cient /ɒmˈnɪsiənt, -ˈnɪʃənt $ ɑːmˈnɪʃənt/ adjective formal KNOW somethingknowing everything 无所不知的，全知的 the book’s omniscient narrator 本书中全知全能的叙事者 —omniscience noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

omniscient• Being pictured as super-humans, they could not be omnipresent or omniscient.• It brings the latest news, day and night, and seems omniscient.• That was shocking; for him, the novelist's duty was to remain invisible, inaudible, discreetly omniscient.• Therefore, we should not expect the centre to be omniscient.• In other words, only an omniscient analyst can judge the degrees of cost and pay-off to both utterer and receiver.• The man reassuring him is, or has the authority of, the omniscient and omnipotent novelist.• Even the botanical garden's omniscient botanist couldn't explain the meaning of the flower's name.• And, above all, who was the omniscient Dario?• If the centre were omniscient, none of this would matter.Origin omniscient (1600-1700) Medieval Latin Latin omni- ( → OMNI-) + scientia ( → SCIENCE)