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geniusnoun a very smart personthe 16-year-old college graduate was considered to be a genius brain, brainiac, intellect, thinker, whiz, wiz, wizard polyhistor, polymath, Renaissance manblue, bluestocking, highbrow, intellectualsage, savantegghead, geek, longhair, nerdmaster, virtuosoace, crackerjack(also crackajack), natural blockhead, dodo, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, goon, half-wit, hammerhead, idiot, imbecile, knucklehead, moron, nitwit, numskull(or numbskull), pinhead ignoramus, illiterate, know-nothing, lowbrowanti-intellectual, philistineass, donkey, fool, jackassbeast, boor, cad, churl, clown, creep, cretin, cur, heel, jerk, louse, lout, skunk, snake, stinker a special and usually inborn abilityhad a genius for remembering long strings of numbers had a genius for saying the wrong thing, no matter what the social situation aptitude, bent, endowment, faculty, flair, gift, head, knack, talent affinity, bias, disposition, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turnear, eye, mind, nosefeel, hang, instinct, touch, waycapability, competence, facility, proficiency, skillcapacity, potential, powerforte, specialism, speciality, specialty disability, handicap, inability, incapacityshortcoming, weakness a habitual attraction to some activity or thinga genius for gambling over his head affection, affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, bone, devices, disposition, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn favor, one-sidedness, partisanship, prejudiceendowment, faculty, flair, gift, knack, talentaddiction, appetite, fancy, fondness, like, liking, preference, tasteforte, speciality, specialtyconvention, custom, habit, pattern, practice(also practise), routine, trick, way, wonteccentricity, idiosyncrasy, kink, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity allergy, averseness, aversion, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disrelish, distastedetachment, impartiality, neutrality, objectivityapathy, disinterestedness, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from othersputting the needs of the individual before those of society is alien to the genius of the Japanese people character, clay, colors, complexion, constitution, nature, personality, self, tone distinctiveness, distinctness, individuality, singularity, uniquenessattribute, characteristic, earmark, essentiality, feature, flavor, hallmark, mark, point, property, savor(also savour), stamp, traitdisposition, grain, sort, temper, temperamentcomposition, makeupessence, essentiality, interior, interiority, soul, spiritmetal, stuff, substancehabit, way a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)the giant tortoise would seem to be the very genius of the unfathomable ancientness that one associates with the Galápagos Islands abstract, avatar, embodier, embodiment, epitome, externalization, icon(also ikon), image, incarnation, incorporation, instantiation, manifestation, objectification, personification, personifier actualization, concretization, exemplification, personalization, realization, substantiationessence, quintessence, soularchetype, exemplar, model, paradigm, patternreincarnation gift, faculty, aptitude, bent, talent, genius, knack mean a special ability for doing something.gift often implies special favor by God or nature.the gift of singing beautifully faculty applies to an innate or less often acquired ability for a particular accomplishment or function.a faculty for remembering names aptitude implies a natural liking for some activity and the likelihood of success in it.a mechanical aptitude bent is nearly equal to aptitude but it stresses inclination perhaps more than specific ability.a family with an artistic bent talent suggests a marked natural ability that needs to be developed.has enough talent to succeed genius suggests impressive inborn creative ability.has no great genius for poetry knack implies a comparatively minor but special ability making for ease and dexterity in performance.the knack of getting along in the 14th century |