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nerdish

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of nerdish

much given to learning and thinking

nerdish students will find several university organizations where they will fit in

Synonyms of nerdish

blue, cerebral, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic, long-haired (or longhair), nerdy

Words Related to nerdish

cultivated, cultured

erudite, learned, literate, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly, well-read

academic (also academical), bookish, professorial

didactic, high-toned, hyperintellectual, pedantic

high-hat, snobbish, snobby, snooty

educated, schooled

brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, smart

Near Antonyms of nerdish

uncultivated, uncultured

ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered, unread

dumb, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), moronic, slow, stupid, unintelligent

benighted, unenlightened

Antonyms of nerdish

anti-intellectual, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistine

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