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geniuses

NOUN

gift of high intellect

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ability accomplishment acumen aptitude brilliance flair imagination ingenuity inspiration intelligence inventiveness knack originality prodigy prowess talent wisdom

STRONG

Einstein acuteness adept aptness astuteness bent brain capability capacity creativity discernment endowment expert faculty grasp head inclination perspicacity power precocity propensity reach sagacity turn understanding virtuoso

WEAK

mature percipience superability

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ignorance inability incapacity ineptitude ineptness lack stupidity weakness

STRONG

amateur impotence incompetence misunderstanding

WEAK

idiot imbecile

Example Sentences

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And the quality of his play since then has made the Seahawks look like geniuses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

“It’s fascinating to me that we had all these great geniuses in town, and kind of ignored them,” says Dunn.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

Likewise, many well-known geniuses like Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, who were chased out of Europe by the Nazis, brilliantly exposed the hypocrisies and soul deadening conformity of mainstream American culture.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

"The problem is we don't do research. We have so many great scientists in Africa. Great people, geniuses, who created all these instruments. But we don't give them credit."

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

Whatever the background, one is face to face with an inscrutable positronic brain, which the slide-rule geniuses say should work thus-and-so.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov