nerdish

adjective

Definition of nerdishnext
as in intellectual
much given to learning and thinking nerdish students will find several university organizations where they will fit in

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  1. intellectual
  2. cerebral
  3. scholarly
Adjective
  • Increasingly, the left is losing the intellectual battle as well.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • During those days, the country’s intellectual and scientific communities were largely based on the East Coast while California remained the Wild West as far as some were concerned.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of intellectual
Adjective
  • Unconcerned with trends, the band never broke up or stopped exploring cerebral combinations of metal, classical and art rock.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Motherland, by Julia Ioffe (June 17) Later in 2025 Nowhere Burning, Catriona Ward (October 7) $27 $29 now 7% off After the brilliant, cerebral chills of The House on Needless Street and Looking Glass Sound, Catriona Ward’s Nowhere Burning promises a more candidly monstrous thriller.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of cerebral
Adjective
  • These research reports and scholarly articles explain how.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Researchers often comb through reams of scholarly works.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of scholarly
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