| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or thing that is extraordinary |
| Synonyms: | brain*, child genius, curiosity, enormity, freak*, genius, intellect, marvel, mastermind, miracle, monster, natural, one in a million, phenomenon, portent, rare bird, rarity, sensation, spectacle, stunner, talent, whiz kid, whiz*, wizard, wonder, wonder child, wunderkind |
| Notes: | prodigy refers to a person with exceptional talents, protégé is a male who is guided or helped by someone, and protégée is the female version |
| Main Entry: | brain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very smart person |
| Synonyms: | Einstein, academician, doctor, egghead, genius, highbrow, intellect, intellectual, mastermind, prodigy, pundit, sage, scholar |
| Antonyms: | dumbo, dumdum, simpleton |
| Main Entry: | curiosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | odd item |
| Synonyms: | anomaly, bibelot, bygone, conversation piece, curio, exoticism, freak, knickknack, marvel, monstrosity, nonesuch, objet d'art, oddity, peculiar object, prodigy, rarity, singular object, trinket, unusual object, wonder |
| Antonyms: | normality |
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
| Synonyms: | Einstein, ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, aptness, astuteness, bent, brain, brilliance, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, knack, mature, originality, percipience, perspicacity, power, precocity, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, superability, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom |
| Antonyms: | idiot, imbecile |
| Main Entry: | jewel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something, someone precious |
| Synonyms: | charm, find, gem, genius, ideal, masterpiece, nonesuch, nonpareil, paragon, pearl, phenomenon, phoenix*, prize, prodigy, rarity, specialty, treasure, wonder |
| Main Entry: | marvel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wonder |
| Synonyms: | curiosity, genius, miracle, one for the books, phenomenon, portent, prodigy, sensation, something else, stunner, whiz |
| Antonyms: | expectation |
| Main Entry: | miracle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wonderful, surprising event or thing |
| Synonyms: | marvel, phenomenon, portent, prodigy, rarity, revelation, sensation, stunner, supernatural occurrence, surprise, thaumaturgy, unusualness, wonder |
| Antonyms: | normalcy, usualness |
| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, one for the books, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rara avis, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, something else, spectacle, stunner, uniqueness |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | portent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | miracle |
| Synonyms: | marvel, phenomenon, prodigy, sensation, stunner, wonder |
| Antonyms: | doom |