generalist

Meanings

Plural: generalists

Noun

• a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
  • "a statistician has to be something of a generalist"
• A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields.
• A general practitioner.
• Species which can thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions. A eurytopic species.

Synonyms

Renaissance man

Antonyms

specialist, stenotopic