nerdish

The word “nerdish” has 2 syllables: ner-dish

It's pronounced as /ˈnɜrdɪʃ/


What is synonym and antonym for nerdish?

In the thesaurus, “nerdish” has 44 synonyms and 21 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for nerdish along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for nerdish

  • academic
  • academical
  • blue
  • bookish
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • cerebral
  • clever
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • didactic
  • educated
  • eggheaded
  • erudite
  • geeky
  • high-hat
  • high-toned
  • highbrow
  • highbrowed
  • hyperintellectual
  • intellectual
  • intellectualist
  • intellectualistic
  • intelligent
  • learned
  • literate
  • long-haired
  • longhair
  • middlebrow
  • nerdy
  • pedantic
  • polyhistoric
  • polymath
  • polymathic
  • professorial
  • quick-witted
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • smart
  • snobbish
  • snobby
  • snooty
  • well-read

Antonyms for nerdish

  • anti-intellectual
  • benighted
  • dumb
  • foolish
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignorant
  • illiterate
  • lowbrow
  • moronic
  • nonintellectual
  • philistine
  • slow
  • stupid
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • uneducated
  • unenlightened
  • unintelligent
  • unlettered
  • unread

Meanings of nerdish

  • adjective
    1. Like a nerd; having the traits of a nerd.

Example Sentences

  • His nerdish habits included collecting rare comic books and attending gaming conventions.
  • She gave a nerdish speech about the history of video games at the conference.
  • The party was filled with nerdish discussions about the latest tech gadgets.
  • He felt proud of his nerdish knowledge of science fiction and fantasy literature.
  • The group laughed at his nerdish jokes, but secretly, they admired his enthusiasm.

On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to nerdish, such as: academic, academical, anti-intellectual, benighted, blue, bookish, brainy.

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Related Words

academic

  • abstract
  • academe
  • academician
  • alleged
  • assumed
  • book-learned
  • bookish
  • bookman
  • bookworm
  • brain
  • cerebral
  • closet
  • college
  • collegiate
  • conceptual
  • conjectural
  • critic
  • criticaster
  • curricular
  • debatable
  • didact
  • dink
  • donnish
  • dork
  • double-dome
  • educational
  • educationist
  • educative
  • educator
  • eggheaded
  • erudite
  • faultfinder
  • formalistic
  • gearhead
  • geek
  • geeky
  • genius
  • graduate
  • grind
  • hairsplitter
  • highbrow
  • hypothetical
  • instructive
  • instructor
  • intellectual
  • ivory-tower
  • ivory-towered
  • ivory-towerish
  • learned
  • lecturer
  • metaphysical
  • moot
  • nerd
  • nerdish
  • nerdy
  • nonclinical
  • nonempirical
  • nonpractical
  • notional
  • pedagog
  • pedagogic
  • pedagogical
  • pedagogue
  • pedant
  • pedantic
  • perfectionist
  • pettifogger
  • postgraduate
  • preceptor
  • presumed
  • presupposed
  • professor
  • professorial
  • proposed
  • pupil
  • purist
  • quibbler
  • scholar
  • scholarly
  • scholastic
  • schoolteacher
  • speculative
  • student
  • studious
  • supposed
  • suppositional
  • swot
  • teacher
  • techie
  • theoretic
  • theoretical
  • tutor
  • tweedy
  • university
  • unproved
  • unproven
  • untested
  • weenie
  • wonk

academical

  • abstract
  • academe
  • academician
  • alleged
  • assumed
  • bookish
  • bookman
  • bookworm
  • brain
  • cerebral
  • collegiate
  • conceptual
  • conjectural
  • critic
  • criticaster
  • curricular
  • debatable
  • didact
  • dink
  • donnish
  • dork
  • double-dome
  • educational
  • educationist
  • educative
  • educator
  • eggheaded
  • faultfinder
  • gearhead
  • geek
  • geeky
  • genius
  • graduate
  • grind
  • hairsplitter
  • highbrow
  • hypothetical
  • instructive
  • instructor
  • intellectual
  • ivory-tower
  • ivory-towered
  • ivory-towerish
  • metaphysical
  • moot
  • nerd
  • nerdish
  • nerdy
  • nonclinical
  • nonempirical
  • nonpractical
  • pedagog
  • pedagogic
  • pedagogical
  • pedagogue
  • pedant
  • pedantic
  • perfectionist
  • pettifogger
  • postgraduate
  • preceptor
  • presumed
  • presupposed
  • professorial
  • proposed
  • purist
  • quibbler
  • scholar
  • scholarly
  • scholastic
  • schoolteacher
  • speculative
  • supposed
  • suppositional
  • swot
  • teacher
  • techie
  • theoretic
  • theoretical
  • tweedy
  • unproved
  • unproven
  • untested
  • weenie
  • wonk

educational

  • academic
  • academical
  • availing
  • beneficial
  • bookish
  • chatty
  • collegiate
  • communicatory
  • comprehensive
  • constructive
  • copious
  • cultural
  • curricular
  • detailed
  • didactic
  • donnish
  • edifying
  • educative
  • elucidative
  • enlightening
  • explanatory
  • full
  • geeky
  • gossipy
  • graduate
  • helpful
  • illuminating
  • informational
  • informative
  • informatory
  • instructional
  • instructive
  • intellectual
  • nerdish
  • nerdy
  • newsy
  • pedagogic
  • pedagogical
  • pedantic
  • postgraduate
  • practical
  • professorial
  • profitable
  • scholarly
  • scholastic
  • serviceable
  • tutorial
  • tweedy
  • usable
  • useable
  • useful
  • worthwhile

eggheaded

  • Einstein
  • academic
  • academical
  • accomplished
  • acute
  • adept
  • advanced
  • agile
  • alert
  • apt
  • astute
  • aware
  • blue
  • bold
  • bookish
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brisk
  • canny
  • cerebral
  • clear-headed
  • clever
  • crafty
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • didactic
  • discerning
  • educated
  • effective
  • erudite
  • expert
  • fresh
  • geeky
  • genius
  • gifted
  • good
  • having smarts
  • high-hat
  • high-toned
  • highbrow
  • highbrowed
  • hyperintellectual
  • impertinent
  • ingenious
  • intellectual
  • intellectualist
  • intellectualistic
  • intelligent
  • inventive
  • keen
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • learned
  • literate
  • long-haired
  • longhair
  • masterly
  • middlebrow
  • nerdish
  • nerdy
  • nervy
  • nimble
  • on the ball
  • pedantic
  • penetrating
  • pert
  • pointed
  • polyhistoric
  • polymath
  • polymathic
  • precocious
  • professorial
  • profound
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • ready
  • resourceful
  • sassy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • sharp
  • shrewd
  • skull
  • slick
  • smart
  • snobbish
  • snobby
  • snooty
  • talented
  • well-read
  • whip
  • whiz
  • whiz kid
  • wide-awake
  • wise

nerdy

  • abhorred
  • academic
  • academical
  • all thumbs
  • amateurish
  • artless
  • assiduous
  • avoided
  • blue
  • blundering
  • bookish
  • bookworm
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • bulky
  • bumbling
  • bungling
  • busy
  • butterfingers
  • careful
  • cerebral
  • clever
  • coarse
  • contemplative
  • creepy
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • despised
  • detested
  • didactic
  • diligent
  • disesteemed
  • disfavored
  • disliked
  • drip
  • dumpy
  • eager
  • earnest
  • educated
  • eggheaded
  • erudite
  • execrated
  • floundering
  • gawky
  • geeky
  • graceless
  • green
  • gross
  • grubbing
  • hard-working
  • having two left feet
  • having two left hands
  • high-hat
  • high-toned
  • highbrow
  • highbrowed
  • hyperintellectual
  • incompetent
  • industrious
  • inept
  • inexpert
  • intellectual
  • intellectualist
  • intellectualistic
  • intelligent
  • klutzy
  • learned
  • lettered
  • literate
  • loathed
  • long-haired
  • longhair
  • loser
  • lousy
  • lumbering
  • maladroit
  • meditative
  • middlebrow
  • nerdish
  • oafish
  • obnoxious
  • ostracized
  • out
  • out of favor
  • pedantic
  • polyhistoric
  • polymath
  • polymathic
  • professorial
  • quick-witted
  • reflective
  • rejected
  • rude
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • scorned
  • sedulous
  • serious
  • shunned
  • smart
  • snobbish
  • snobby
  • snooty
  • stiff
  • stumbling
  • thoughtful
  • unaccepted
  • unattractive
  • uncared-for
  • uncoordinated
  • uncouth
  • undesirable
  • unfit
  • ungainly
  • ungraceful
  • unhandy
  • unloved
  • unpolished
  • unrefined
  • unskilled
  • unskillful
  • unvalued
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • weird
  • well-informed
  • well-read
  • wimpy

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