nerdish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nerdish
Adjective
  • Be aware that subconscious resistance may push against intellectual exploration under the Aquarius moon.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • In an era when media depictions of Black youth still too often revolve around trauma, poverty, and systemic failure, Forever offers a radical counter-narrative: Black families where parents are not just present, but deeply invested in their children’s emotional and intellectual development.
    Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • The humor was of the cerebral, physical, cynical and quite often gallows varieties, but always heartfelt.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 8 May 2025
  • This is a person who was an extremely cerebral human being.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • There have been TikTok videos, Reddit threads and scholarly essays, all dedicated to how that one scene traumatized us all.
    Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 16 May 2025
  • Graham Coop, the director of the university’s Center for Population Biology, was among nearly 250 new members announced last month by the academy, one of the nation’s oldest scholarly societies.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 12 May 2025
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“Nerdish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nerdish. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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