brainiac
/ˈbɹeɪniæk/
brainiac noun: a very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person.
Noun
brainiac (plural brainiacs)
- A very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person.
- With all the brainiacs in the world ... you'd think somebody would come up with a sunblock for ice cream.2009 July 18, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)
- With nearly 900,000 Twitter followers, Popova is a member of a rare pantheon of “influencers” for the brainiac crowd. Miraculously, she makes a living writing a blog about science, literature, philosophy, feminism and whatever else takes her voracious and generous fancy.2019 February 8, Margaret Wertheim, “Minds that explore the beauty of math and the logic of art”, in Washington Post, →ISSN
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Forms of brainiac
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Origin of brainiac
Blend of brain + maniac, with influence from ENIAC, the name of an early computer. The term was coined as the name of the fictional supervillain Brainiac in the Superman series and first appeared in Action Comics comic book #242 in July, 1958. By surface analysis, brainy + -ac.
Words that rhyme with brainiac
- maniac
- automaniac
- dipsomaniac
- paramaniac
- Anglomaniac
- anthomaniac
- Beatlemaniac
- bibliomaniac
- cocainomaniac
- decalcomaniac
- demonomaniac
- dinomaniac
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- egomaniac
- eleutheromaniac
- ergomaniac
- erotomaniac
- etheromaniac
- ethnomaniac
- Euromaniac
- flagellomaniac
- Gallomaniac
- Germanomaniac
- graphomaniac
- Grecomaniac
- heroinomaniac
- hydromaniac
- hypomaniac
- hysteromaniac
- infomaniac
- kleptomaniac
- logomaniac
- megalomaniac
- melomaniac
- mentulomaniac
- metromaniac
- micromaniac
- monomaniac
- morphinomaniac
- morphiomaniac
- mythomaniac
- narcomaniac
- nymphomaniac
- oenomaniac
- oniomaniac
- orchidomaniac
- pornomaniac
- Pottermaniac
- pyromaniac
- Remainiac
- Russomaniac
- satyromaniac
- sonnettomaniac
- squandermaniac
- substratomaniac
- theatromaniac
- theomaniac
- timbromaniac
- tulipomaniac
- xenomaniac
Questions about brainiac
- What does brainiac mean?
- Brainiac means a very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person.
- What part of speech is brainiac?
- Brainiac is a noun.
- How do you pronounce brainiac?
- Brainiac is pronounced /ˈbɹeɪniæk/.
- What is the plural of brainiac?
- The plural of brainiac is brainiacs.
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