genius
Noun
- Exceptional intellectual or creative power; a person with such ability.
- someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
- "Mozart was a child genius"
- unusual mental ability
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- exceptional creative ability
- a natural talent
- "he has a genius for interior decorating"
- Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
- Extraordinary mental capacity.
- Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
- The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
Adj
- Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.
Examples
- a work of genius
- and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy
- His play of ’QUIXOTIC’ was a stroke of GENIUS, securing hundreds of points.
- She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!
- to add a dash of cinnamon amid such umami was pure genius
- What a genius idea!
Origin / Etymology
From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus.
Synonyms
ace, adept, brain, brainiac, brilliance, champion, Einstein, flair, hotshot, mastermind, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard, wizardry, apparition, brain surgeon, brainbox, deep thinker, egghead, genius, intellectual, liqueur, liquor, mind, rocket scientist, specter, spirit, superbrain, thinker, tutelary deity, vision
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 7
genius: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgenius: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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