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Antonyms for genius
ˈdʒin yəs; ˈdʒi niˌaɪge·nius
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
genius
Genius is exalted intellectual power capable of operating independently of tuition and training, and marked by an extraordinary faculty for original creation, invention, discovery, expression, etc. Talent is marked mental ability, and in a special sense, a particular and uncommon aptitude for some special mental work or attainment. Genius is higher than talent, more spontaneous, less dependent upon instruction, less amenable to training; talent is largely the capacity to learn, acquire, appropriate, adapt oneself to demand. Yet the genius that has won the largest and most enduring success has been joined with tireless industry and painstaking. Compare synonyms for MIND; POWER.
Antonyms:
dulness, folly, imbecility, obtuseness, senselessness, stupidity
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
genius
Antonyms:
stolidity, stupidity, inanity, imbecilitySynonyms:
talent, cleverness, inventiveness, creativeness, intellect, skill, giftedness, ideality, endowment, nature, gift, character, faculty
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Princeton's WordNet
genius, mastermind, brain, brainiac, Einsteinnoun
someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
"Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein"
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virtuoso, wizard, star, psyche, brainiac, nous, encephalon, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, flair, wizardry, brainpower, conceiver, learning ability, mastermind, maven, ace, originator, sensation, mind, mental capacity, mentality, hotshot, wiz, wit, adept, brilliance, brain, head, whizzbrilliance, geniusnoun
unusual mental ability
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virtuoso, wizard, star, hotshot, brainiac, splendor, champion, glare, blaze, mavin, magnificence, wizardry, grandness, mastermind, superstar, ace, whiz, sensation, splendour, maven, wiz, grandeur, adept, brilliance, brain, flair, whizzace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiznoun
someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
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esthesis, wiz, whiz, brain, one, sense, asterisk, maven, protagonist, ace, paladin, angiotensin-converting enzyme, unity, whizz, friend, headliner, thaumaturgist, principal, sensory faculty, necromancer, thaumaturge, booster, lead, sense experience, hotshot, brilliance, hero, star topology, wizardry, mavin, brainiac, single, sensation, star, title-holder, angiotensin converting enzyme, sense datum, flair, virtuoso, fighter, wizard, magician, supporter, sorcerer, aesthesis, sense impression, adept, sentience, superstar, champ, mastermind, admirer, champion, sentiencygenius, wizardrynoun
exceptional creative ability
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virtuoso, wizard, star, brainiac, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, flair, wizardry, mastermind, maven, ace, sensation, hotshot, wiz, adept, brilliance, brain, whizzflair, geniusnoun
a natural talent
"he has a flair for mathematics"; "he has a genius for interior decorating"
Synonyms:
virtuoso, wizard, star, hotshot, brainiac, sensation, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, flair, wizardry, mastermind, flare, style, ace, maven, wiz, adept, brilliance, elan, panache, brain, dash, whizz
How to use genius in a sentence?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
Genius is talent provided with ideals.
Marvin talked in riddles that made perfect sense, were always profound and often so funny that you would find yourself laughing days later, his genius was so self-evident that it defined 'awesome,'.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#8200 | genius | |
#10551 | idiot | |
#20444 | stupidity | |
#21891 | folly | |
#148277 | inanity | |
#173706 | imbecility | |
#245809 | senselessness | |
#269750 | dulness | |
#290675 | obtuseness |
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