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genius
noun as in gift of high intellect
Strongest matches
ability, accomplishment, acumen, aptitude, brilliance, flair, imagination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, originality, prodigy, prowess, talent, wisdom
Strong matches
acuteness, aptness, astuteness, bent, brain, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expertise, faculty, grasp, head, inclination, knack, perspicacity, power, precocity, propensity, sagacity, understanding, virtuosity
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Example Sentences
The worthy effort to emphasize that much of the artist’s inventive genius — unfurling in thousands of manuscript pages, rather than oil paint and tempera — makes the dull staging a perhaps unavoidable conceit.
That is the genius of boxing promotion, the understanding that people will pay to watch the downfall of the other.
Mr. Turing, a math genius and secret hero of World War II, was mistreated by England near the end of his life.
It put England on the way to triumph, confirmed late on by a second goal when Jude Bellingham's shot bounced in off Greece keeper Odysseas Vlachodimos, then a flash of genius from debutant Curtis Jones.
“Something genius always falls out of that,” he said, “and Dwight knows that. I love that he’s still like that.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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