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polymath

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Synonyms and Antonyms of polymath

formal someone who knows a lot about many different things

She is rightly regarded as something of a polymath in her extensive knowledge of all the earth sciences.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of polymath

polyhistor, Renaissance man, Renaissance woman

brain, brainiac, genius, intellect, thinker, whiz, wiz, wizard

blue, bluestocking, highbrow, intellectual

egghead, geek, longhair, nerd

master, virtuoso

ace, crackerjack (also crackajack), natural

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of polymath

ignoramus, illiterate, know-nothing, lowbrow

anti-intellectual, philistine

ass, donkey, fool, jackass

blockhead, dodo, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, goon, half-wit, hammerhead, idiot, imbecile, knucklehead, moron, nitwit, numskull (or numbskull), pinhead

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