eggheaded

egg·head·ed

adj \-ˈhe-dəd\

Definition of EGGHEADED

: having the characteristics of an egghead

— egg·head·ed·ness noun

Examples of EGGHEADED

1. <a play that appeals mainly to the small body of eggheaded theatergoers>

First Known Use of EGGHEADED

1938

Related to EGGHEADED

Synonyms: blue, cerebral, intellectual, geeky, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectualist, intellectualistic, long-haired (or longhair), nerdish, nerdy

Antonyms: anti-intellectual, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistine

Related Words: cultivated, cultured; middlebrow; erudite, learned, literate, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly, well-read; academic (also academical), bookish, professorial; didactic, high-toned, hyperintellectual, pedantic; high-hat, snobbish, snobby, snooty; educated, schooled; brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, smart

Near Antonyms: uncultivated, uncultured; ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered, unread; dumb, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), moronic, slow, stupid, unintelligent; benighted, unenlightened

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Rhymes with EGGHEADED

airheaded, bareheaded, bigheaded, bullheaded, clearheaded, coolheaded, embedded, fatheaded, hardheaded, hotheaded, light-headed, longheaded, lunkheaded, pigheaded, pinheaded, redheaded, roundheaded, sapheaded, softheaded, swelled-headed, swellheaded, thickheaded, towheaded, unleaded, white-headed, wrongheaded