genius | Definition of genius

Synonyms and Antonyms of genius

1 a very smart person

the 16-year-old college graduate was considered to be a genius

Synonyms of genius

brain, brainiac, intellect, thinker, whiz, wiz, wizard

Words Related to genius

polyhistor, polymath, Renaissance man

blue, bluestocking, highbrow, intellectual

egghead, geek, longhair, nerd

master, virtuoso

ace, crackerjack (also crackajack), natural

Near Antonyms of genius

ignoramus, illiterate, know-nothing, lowbrow

anti-intellectual, philistine

ass, donkey, fool, jackass

beast, boor, cad, churl, clown, creep, cretin, cur, heel, jerk, louse, lout, skunk, snake, stinker

Antonyms of genius

blockhead, dodo, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, goon, half-wit, hammerhead, idiot, imbecile, knucklehead, moron, nitwit, numskull (or numbskull), pinhead

2 a special and usually inborn ability

had a genius for remembering long strings of numbers

had a genius for saying the wrong thing, no matter what the social situation

Synonyms of genius

aptitude, bent, endowment, faculty, flair, gift, head, knack, talent

Words Related to genius

affinity, bias, disposition, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn

ear, eye, mind, nose

feel, hang, instinct, touch, way

capability, competence, facility, proficiency, skill

capacity, potential, power

forte, specialism, speciality, specialty

Near Antonyms of genius

disability, handicap, inability, incapacity

shortcoming, weakness

3 a habitual attraction to some activity or thing

a genius for gambling over his head

Synonyms of genius

affection, affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, bone, devices, disposition, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn

Words Related to genius

favor, one-sidedness, partisanship, prejudice

endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift, knack, talent

addiction, appetite, fancy, fondness, like, liking, preference, taste

forte, speciality, specialty

convention, custom