NOUN
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someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
he's smart but he's no Einstein
Mozart was a child genius
How To Use brainiac In A Sentence
- Saying ‘statistically, no’ is supposed to hint that the statistics may well be a fictitious construct, some idle confection of brainiacs and number-crunchers with little real referent.
- It was about two girls who did not fit in because they were brainiacs.
- Here's what the brainiacs on the editorial board of The World's Greatest Newspaper can't understand.
- Her less brainiac little sister goes to another league-topping school nearby, only marginally less exalted. Times, Sunday Times
- With its nondescript, brainiac anti-heroes and dialogue crammed with technospeak, it is the ultimate geek movie.
- This brainiac is driving with his left foot extended out the driver’s side window and is resting his ankle on the side mirror. 2009 August « Mudpuddle
- As its name promises, Function Brainiac targets cognitive functions with its combination of soy phosphatidylserine, the antioxidant NAC (again!), ginkgo biloba, vitamin E, and zinc. MD Drinks: Better Health in a Bottle
- Poizner the "brainiac" is a wolf in sheep's clothing, to him everything that is wrong in CA is the illegals fault. AroundTheCapitol.com
- Though it would please me to think marrying outside my ethnic group has afforded my spawn a clearer shot at intellectual greatness, any mad 'brainiac' DNA my children might possess more likely arrives via their crazy, drunken, Mensa-smart goyishe grandfather than from their closest Ashkenazi kin. Michele Somerville: Many Are 'Chosen People' -- And a Few Even Know What It Means
- You didn't need to be a crossword-obsessed brainiac to get the joke. Times, Sunday Times