genius
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie.
Inflected forms:
form: geniuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: genii
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more genius
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most genius
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!
Marx stand höher, sah weiter, überblickte mehr und rascher als wir andern alle. Marx war ein Genie, wir andern höchstens Talente.
gloss: Extraordinary mental capacity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Excuse, therefore, the shortcomings of genius under the sudorific influence of the summer solstice; for be assured that the vertical sun, however it may dulcify and mature cherries, plums, and other fruitful ‘plumpitudes,’ is by no means favorable to the development of intellectual products.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
gloss: Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: a work of genius
to add a dash of cinnamon amid such umami was pure genius
gloss: The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
pos: noun
tags: Roman
also
countable
figuratively
examples: and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy
We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity.
An old sinner, in shape of a khansamah, is the genius of the place, and has rarely aught else to tempt the tired traveller with than a “sudden death”—a fowl caught running in the yard, and dished up forthwith; […]
gloss: Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: What a genius idea!
Bjarte Birkeland asserts that the reason why Nynorsk writers of fiction have succeeded in coming so close to naked life is not that they are more genius than authors writing in Bokmal, but that they are using their mother tongue
We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.
But Vahul was more genius than Rishi.
She said the writing for these products “is very genius” because it's carefully done.
Synonyms: brain
brain surgeon
brainbox
brainiac
deep thinker
Einstein
egghead
genius
intellectual
mind
rocket scientist
superbrain
thinker
Antonyms: idiot
Related words: sage
wise
Derived words: bonus genius
dumb genius
evil genius
geniocracy
Geniocracy
geniolatry
geniosity
genius familiae
genius hominis
geniuslike
genius loci
genius locorum
geniusness
malus genius
nongenius
scenius
stroke of genius
SubGenius
supergenius
ungenius
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