as in intellectual
much given to learning and thinking
nerdish students will find several university organizations where they will fit in
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Recent Examples of nerdish
In a deliberately cheap-looking black-and-white faux-’50s horror movie, the comedy team of Tim & Eric (Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim) play nerdish mad scientists who capture and bring to their laboratory a dino-fish monster who looks like a chomping-jawed gill-man made of papier-mâché.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
18 May 2026
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
18 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nerdish
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, subsequent attempts at diplomacy, led by the ailing diplomat and intellectual Benjamin Franklin, also proved ineffective.
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After all, even with the growing demands of an aging population and increases in intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), larger numbers of these jobs are already poorly paid.
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Spontaneous and slightly chaotic, this cerebral synergy can bring surprising news or perhaps even trigger the sudden urge to break out of a stagnant situation.
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While Lovers Rock may be more musically spare and reserved, the album’s lyrics represent some of Adu’s most cerebral and political work to date.
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Played by Ella Bruccoleri, the show’s Mary is recontextualized as a sweet, nerdy girl out of step with her time and beaten down by her mother’s assertions that her looks and personality will exclude her from a successful match.
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In the film, three nerdy high school kids throw a small birthday celebration that spirals into a massive, neighborhood-destroying riot involving thousands of people and a flamethrower.
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These shy, geeky songs grope toward feelings that their human vessels don’t fully comprehend.
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There’s also bocce, bingo, and something called Nerd Nite, when folks give presentations on geeky topics from chemistry to Star Trek.
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He was honored as a Distinguished Fellow by the same organization for his scholarly contributions to the field of regional science, according to his obituary.
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Miami Circle gets historic recognition Carr and other experts, with the support of Ryan Wheeler, then the state’s chief of archaeology, built a case that gradually came to mainstream scientific and scholarly acceptance.
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“Nerdish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nerdish. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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