Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who is highly intelligent.
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- noun slang, sometimes derogatory a very
intelligent and usuallystudious ,erudite person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This brainiac is driving with his left foot extended out the driver’s side window and is resting his ankle on the side mirror.
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This brainiac is driving with his left foot extended out the driver’s side window and is resting his ankle on the side mirror.
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This brainiac is driving with his left foot extended out the driver’s side window and is resting his ankle on the side mirror.
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Milligan will play Ethan, who the NYPost not only describes as a brainiac, but also as someone who possesses other qualities valued in the 90210.
BEVERLY HILLS 90210 Version 2.0 Casts its First Student | the TV addict 2008
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Though it would please me to think marrying outside my ethnic group has afforded my spawn a clearer shot at intellectual greatness, any mad 'brainiac' DNA my children might possess more likely arrives via their crazy, drunken, Mensa-smart goyishe grandfather than from their closest Ashkenazi kin.
Michele Somerville: Many Are 'Chosen People' -- And a Few Even Know What It Means 2010
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Ware, who looks like Frasier Crane, only with an even bigger "brainiac" forehead, has a devastating line in self-deprecation.
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KING: They're also bringing in, I understand, another show from England, with brighter questions, a kind of brainiac show.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Who Wants to Host a Game Show? - January 19, 2000 2000
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Poizner the "brainiac" is a wolf in sheep's clothing, to him everything that is wrong in CA is the illegals fault.
AroundTheCapitol.com 2010
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He says the public perception of autism is skewed by success stories -- the high-functioning "brainiac" kids who thrive despite their disability.
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He says the public perception of autism is skewed by success stories - the high-functioning "brainiac" kids who thrive despite their disability.
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