egghead

egghead

noun

Definition of EGGHEAD

a person with strong intellectual interests <the unlikely marriage between a literary egghead and a Hollywood sex symbol>

Synonyms double-dome, egghead, geek, highbrow, intellectualist, longhair, nerd

Related Words blue, bluestocking; Brahmin, mandarin, sage; intellectualizer, pseud [British]; brain, genius, intellect, thinker, whiz, wizard

Near Antonyms blockhead, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, half-wit, imbecile, moron, nitwit, pinhead, simpleton

Antonyms anti-intellectual, lowbrow, philistine