Synonyms of genies

genies 1 of 2

noun (1)

variants also genii

plural of genie

as in demons

in stories a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it

He rubbed the magic lamp to summon the genie.

Related Words

• demons
• vampires
• ghouls
• fairies
• ghosts
• devils
• jinn
• elves
• goblins
• banshees
• imps
• monsters
• gnomes
• shadows
• fiends
• dwarfs
• pixies
• nightmares
• succubi
• incubi
• hags
• ghoulies
• faeries
• apparitions
• phantoms
• wraiths
• trolls
• visions
• cacodemons
• specters
• poltergeists
• afreets
• familiars
• leprechauns
• shades
• spooks
• phantasms
• gremlins
• sprites
• shaitans
• bugbears
• lamiae
• brownies
• familiar spirits
• hobgoblins
• kobolds
• ogres
• pucks
• geniuses
• fays
• bogeys

Dissimilar Words

• angels

geniuses

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noun (2)

variants or genii

plural of genius

1

as in wizards

a very smart person

the 16-year-old college graduate was considered to be a genius

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wizards
• brains
• intellects
• brainiacs
• thinkers
• nerds
• geeks
• intellectuals
• virtuosos
• whizzes
• savants
• wizzes
• sages
• polymaths
• blues
• masters
• highbrows
• bluestockings
• Renaissance men
• longhairs
• polyhistors
• aces
• crackerjacks

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• idiots
• morons
• imbeciles
• dolts
• dunces
• dopes
• knuckleheads
• blockheads
• dummies
• goons
• pinheads
• illiterates
• numskulls
• nitwits
• ignoramuses
• fatheads
• hammerheads
• dumbbells
• lowbrows
• half-wits
• fools
• philistines
• dodoes
• asses
• know-nothings
• jackasses
• donkeys
• clowns
• beasts
• jerks
• heels
• snakes
• boors
• cretins
• stinkers
• skunks
• louts
• creeps
• cads
• anti-intellectuals
• curs
• churls
• louses

2

as in talents

a special and usually inborn ability

had a genius for remembering long strings of numbers

had a genius for saying the wrong thing, no matter what the social situation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• talents
• aptitudes
• gifts
• knacks
• faculties
• flairs
• endowments
• bents
• minds
• tendencies
• eyes
• ears
• skills
• affinities
• heads
• impulses
• inclinations
• instincts
• proclivities
• predilections
• biases
• feels
• noses
• propensities
• facilities
• predispositions
• powers
• capabilities
• dispositions
• leanings
• capacities
• potentials
• ways
• penchants
• competences
• proficiencies
• specialties
• partialities
• habitudes
• turns
• hangs
• touches
• specialities
• fortes
• specialisms

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disabilities
• handicaps
• weaknesses
• shortcomings
• incapacities
• inabilities

3

as in aptitudes

a habitual attraction to some activity or thing

a genius for gambling over his head

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aptitudes
• tendencies
• inclinations
• affinities
• talents
• devices
• affections
• impulses
• proclivities
• biases
• predilections
• knacks
• dispositions
• predispositions
• leanings
• propensities
• bents
• gifts
• addictions
• appetites
• bones
• penchants
• preferences
• prejudices
• partialities
• habitudes
• turns
• faculties
• endowments
• habits
• tastes
• likes
• specialties
• favors
• practices
• specialities
• eccentricities
• partisanships
• fancies
• flairs
• idiosyncrasies
• customs
• singularities
• quirks
• patterns
• peculiarities
• tricks
• routines
• conventions
• oddities
• likings
• ways
• fortes
• kinks
• wonts

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• allergies
• dislikes
• disinclinations
• distastes
• disrelishes
• aversions
• detachments
• disfavors
• indifferences
• impartialities
• neutralities
• objectivities
• insouciances
• nonchalances
• apathies

4

as in natures

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• natures
• personalities
• selves
• tones
• characters
• characteristics
• colors
• constitutions
• clays
• traits
• features
• spirits
• dispositions
• compositions
• temperaments
• complexions
• essences
• singularities
• habits
• attributes
• sorts
• properties
• hallmarks
• souls
• flavors
• substances
• individualities
• stuff
• stamps
• tempers
• metals
• grains
• ways
• essentialities
• interiors
• earmarks
• points
• marks
• makeups
• interiorities
• savors

5

as in manifestations

a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)

the giant tortoise would seem to be the very genius of the unfathomable ancientness that one associates with the Galápagos Islands

Synonyms & Similar Words

• manifestations
• icons
• images
• avatars
• incarnations
• essences
• personifications
• models
• abstracts
• incorporations
• objectifications
• externalizations
• epitomes
• instantiations
• embodiments
• realizations
• embodiers
• personifiers
• souls
• exemplifications
• reincarnations
• paradigms
• actualizations
• personalizations
• exemplars
• concretizations
• archetypes
• substantiations
• patterns
• quintessences

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of genies

Noun

He and Ka-young are reunited, both as genies. — Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025

Like genies, the sky's the limit for making your holiday wishes come true. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2026

One Aladdin Two Lamps contains spectacular genies of its own, particularly when the author follows her intuition. — Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026

Noun

Drama of the nerds and the geniuses. — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

Also, the brilliance of Tolstoy and Chekhov and Dostoevsky, these geniuses that have gone down in history. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026

But there was also a team beyond that consisting of creative geniuses like chess grandmasters, codebreakers and human psychologists. — Alexander Foster, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026

You have been fired or laid off, and your replacement immediately takes the company to unprecedented heights while receiving the universal praise reserved for the geniuses of your craft. — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 17 June 2026

Like nuclear-fission research, machine learning was a small scientific field with epochal implications which was dominated by a cadre of eccentric geniuses. — Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

The two budding geniuses would sit in Charles’ apartment for hours, talking music theory and analyzing records, though Jones’s curiosity occasionally exhausted Charles. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026

Special shout-out to the writers’ room for giving us a high-tension cold open and then segueing immediately post-credits to the Titan equivalent of a family road trip where Mom and Dad are pedantic geniuses arguing over what route to take to the beach. — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 22 May 2026

This has been, in no small part, because Russia’s writers have often played an antagonistic role in the efforts of Russia’s rulers to shape a particular image of the country, including Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy—arguably Russia’s two most iconic literary geniuses. — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026