NERD Synonyms

• a carnival performer who does disgusting acts

• a person with an unusual or odd personality

• to be intoxicated

• a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

• someone who spends a great deal of time reading

• that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

• mental ability

• that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason

• someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

• the brain of certain animals used as meat

• hit on the head

• kill by smashing someone's skull

• someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

• an intellectual; a very studious and academic person

• someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

• unusual mental ability

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• exceptional creative ability

• a natural talent

• a person of intellectual or erudite tastes

• highly cultured or educated

• appealing to or using the intellect

• involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

• a person who uses the mind creatively

• of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

• an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration

• a sign of something about to happen

• an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality

• someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

• pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms

• a contestant who loses the contest

• a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently

• a gambler who loses a bet

• someone who is regarded as contemptible

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

• the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground

• hard monotonous routine work

• the act of grinding to a powder or dust

• press or grind with a crushing noise

• make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

• work hard

• dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• created by grinding

• shape or form by grinding

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

• study intensively, as before an exam

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious