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a very smart person<the 16-year-old college graduate was considered to be a genius>Synonymsbrain, intellect, thinker, whiz, wizardRelated Wordsegghead, highbrow, intellectual; master, virtuoso; ace, crackerjack, natural; sage, savantNear Antonymsignoramus, illiterate, know-nothing; ass, donkey, fool, jackass; beast, boor, cad, churl, clown, creep, cretin, cur, heel, jerk, louse, lout, skunk, snake, stinkerAntonymsblockhead, dodo, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, goon, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, knothead, moron, nitwit, numskull (or numbskull), pinhead
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a special and usually inborn ability<had a genius for remembering long strings of numbers>— see talent
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a habitual attraction to some activity or thing<had a genius for saying the wrong thing no matter what the social situation>— see inclination 1
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the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others<putting the needs of the individual before those of society is alien to the genius of the Japanese people>— see nature 1
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