genius
Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
Noun 4 meanings
Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
“She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!”
Extraordinary mental capacity.
Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
“a work of genius”
The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
“and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy”
Adjective 1 meaning
Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.
“What a genius idea!”
Etymology
From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie.
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GENIUS at a glance
GENIUS has 6 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (G 2 + E 1 + N 1 + I 1 + U 1 + S 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,010 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with genius
All rhymes- RADIUS7
- SARTORIUS9
- REGIUS7
- DENARIUS9
- GLADIUS9
- MEDIUS9
- TRAPEZIUS20
- TERTIUS7
- GASTROCNEMIUS18
- NAUPLIUS10
- SESTERTIUS10
- RETIARIUS9
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- GENIES7
- GENIPS9
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