NERD Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

nerd

noun

ˈnərd

as in geek

a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits was such a nerd in college that she spent Saturday nights at the library

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as in intellectual

a person with strong intellectual interests an unlikely romance between a nerd and a campus beauty queen

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Recent Examples of nerd A lot of people think that fermentation happens as an effect of acidity and oxygen deprivation, but those nerds are wrong. —

Fran Tirado, Them, 18 Dec. 2024 But, as the earnest, klutzy, tenderhearted nerd Steve Urkel, White hit it off with audiences and found himself suddenly at the center of the star-making machine. —

Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024 Others geek out over Velma, the glasses-wearing, hypothesis-sharing nerd from Scooby Doo. —

Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2024 As the pandemic raged, the lawsuit hardly registered outside the small world of nerds obsessed with copyright rules. —

Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for nerd