Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A highly intelligent person: "These companies are not hot Silicon Valley startups swarming with Gen-X brainiacs” ( Ronald Henkoff).
Wiktionary
- n. slang, sometimes derogatory a very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
Etymologies
- Probably from Brainiac, a highly intelligent villain in DC Comics, blend of brain and maniac. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This brainiac is driving with his left foot extended out the driver’s side window and is resting his ankle on the side mirror.”
“Milligan will play Ethan, who the NYPost not only describes as a brainiac, but also as someone who possesses other qualities valued in the 90210.”
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“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.”
“Ware, who looks like Frasier Crane, only with an even bigger "brainiac" forehead, has a devastating line in self-deprecation.”
“KING: They're also bringing in, I understand, another show from England, with brighter questions, a kind of brainiac show.”
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Who Wants to Host a Game Show? - January 19, 2000
“Poizner the "brainiac" is a wolf in sheep's clothing, to him everything that is wrong in CA is the illegals fault.”
“He says the public perception of autism is skewed by success stories -- the high-functioning "brainiac" kids who thrive despite their disability.”
“He says the public perception of autism is skewed by success stories - the high-functioning "brainiac" kids who thrive despite their disability.”
“It was in junior high that he fell in with a problem crowd, after being teased for being a "brainiac," for belonging to math and chess clubs.”
“Is Sarah Palin so very different from liberal "brainiac" journalists believe a politician should be like that they have to comb through her personal life in search of all the details that shout that she would not fit in at their cocktail parties?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brainiac’.
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brain phrases/words
how brain is used
brain cell, brain war, brainstem, brain-lit, brain gym, brain fog, brain-cap, boiled brains, brain-ache, brain atom, brain axis, brain ball and 140 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Ends with C but not with "-ic"
bloc, roc, arc, orc, disc, sac, xebec, havoc, bivouac, sumac, maniac, insomniac and 418 more...
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You think you're so smart, don't you?
Brainy kids, from someone else's POV.
poindexter, pencil head, egghead, smartmouth, geek, brainiac, square, nerdling, double-dome, brain, pointy head, honor student and 19 more...
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Insult me, slangly
muggins, fathead, jackass, twat, fuckstick, craptastick, dumbfuck, asshole, asshat, gorgeous, intelligent, brainiac and 3 more...
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Nicknames you shouldn't give to an ax...
primrose, snookums, lavender, piglet, rainbow sunshine, kitten, fuzzy, sweetie, wiggles, care bear, love-a-lot, cheery and 87 more...
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Rain
rain, Purple Rain, drain, rainbow, grain, rain shadow, rainforest, raindrops keep fa..., rain, rain, go away, Rainn Wilson, Black Rain, rainbow trout and 55 more...
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Ideas
brainchild, inspiration, muse, genius, eureka, discovery, intellectual prop..., intangible asset, goodwill, patented, savant, brainiac and 76 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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Superwords
Look, up in the dictionary! It's words coined in or popularized by Superman comics and other media.
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Names in General.
Both derogatory and conciliatory.
coxcomb, hepcat, macaroni, buck, scuzzbucket, daddy-o, beatnik, ducky, honky, ninnyhammer, bloke, blighter and 44 more...
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St. Trinian's (2007)
Words from a 2007 'St. Trinian's' film.
wreath, lully, insufferable, pikey, ugly betty, posh totty, nitwit, dosser, concoction, teetotal, blight, namby-pamby and 21 more...
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Remember and Use!
motherese, chancy, paraphrase, drippy, reluctant, oblivious, captivating, inevitable, sophisticated, naïveté, thought-provoking, hypochondriac and 18 more...
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