as in intellectual
much given to learning and thinking
a play that appeals mainly to the small body of eggheaded theatergoers
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Adjective
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The petulant, back-stabby intrigue between various parties here sometimes makes the hero rather unsympathetic, with photogenic singer-actor Pena Hernandez’s puppyish turn not conveying a great deal of complexity, let alone artistic o intellectual potential.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025 -
His portrayal of a pompous, yapping intellectual who's rotten to the core rings uncomfortably true, as do the performances of Thatcher and East as their characters nonverbally communicate their discomfort to each other.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Smith secures a dynasty On a team crowded with superstars, the cerebral catcher can go unnoticed.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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When Mercury and Uranus retrograde face off across the sky, the result is purely cerebral and quite electric.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Like, the nerdy part of that is very interesting to me.—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Portrayed with great humor, and a light touch barely ever achieved by young actors, Devi’s best challenges involve boys—especially Ben, her nerdy competition for top of the class, and Paxton—a hot athlete.—
John Ortved,
Vogue,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Much scholarly attention is also paid to the science of electrical storage, enabling a body to function as a permanently recharged battery, and to the use of an enormous lightning-rod mechanism, which will harness lightning from atop an isolated tower, where Victor conducts his experiments.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2025
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The study, published on the open-access scholarly article archive, arxiv, has not yet been peer-reviewed.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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An obscure and slightly geeky type of energy is integral to the state's plan for addressing the looming energy crisis.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
4 Nov. 2025
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So many showgoers opted for the geeky-chic print during Fashion Month, and every brand from Zara to Miu Miu currently offers its own take.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Since modern romance developed in the 1970s, these novels have been thoroughly ignored by highbrow critics and prestigious-award juries.—
Rebecca Ackermann,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2025
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Trent Reznor usually keeps his highbrow Oscar-winning soundtrack composer side relatively separate from his main gig running Nine Inch Nails.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Eggheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eggheaded. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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