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
  • American culture, society, and education broadly divides people into two separate intellectual camps from childhood: left brain thinkers adept at logic and math and right brained thinkers geared toward creativity.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Once the police have deposited Elwood in Nickel’s run-down barracks for Black inmates, Ross extends the dramatic force of his method while expanding its intellectual scope.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of intellectual
Adjective
  • Joined by Columbia professor Rafael Yuste (the film’s science advisor), the two cross the country querying innovators in cerebral research and bioethics: Can computers help people communicate telepathically?
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
  • What are permanent and steady as the Rock of Gibraltar are cerebral pleasures from doing the right thing: kindness, benevolence, unsparing selflessness, unwearied devotion to justice, becoming wiser and more resilient by the day.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of cerebral
Adjective
  • As higher education continued to develop, facilities and programs burnished scholarly reputations as modern universities emerged in cities like Paris and Bologna.
    Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Young Ed Klum was musical, scholarly, and athletic.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of scholarly
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