GEEKS Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

geeks

noun

plural of geek

as in nerds

a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits was quickly stereotyped as another computer geek

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as in intellectuals

a person with strong intellectual interests a jock-dominated campus on which geeks were either ridiculed or ignored

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as in experts

a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field a friend who is an audio-video geek set up my home theater for me

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Recent Examples of geeks For movie geeks everywhere, this has been the question since Kubrick’s death in 1999. — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026 In recent weeks, a number of states have been winning multibillion-dollar settlements from the computer geeks. — Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026 Sure, something interesting might eventually happen, but no one outside of a few Canadian space geeks was paying much attention. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026 To see which theater geeks could win trophies Monday, which ones are handing them out, and everything else to know about the 2026 Emmy Awards, read on. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026 Fortunately, Green’s film exists — and was not thrown into a little black hole by a bunch of accountants, never to be seen again — and can surely help cure any of the pain its backstory still inflicts on movie fans and Tunes geeks. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026 Funko occupies a massive physical footprint in a far corner of the convention center at SDCC, the annual pop culture festival that attracts over 130,000 fans and geeks from around the world. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2026 For aviation geeks or those who simply want to keep track of their plane’s unique flying data and route, squawk codes can be tracked on apps and websites like Flightradar24 and Flight Beacon. — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2026 The Big Bang Theory ran for 279 episodes across 12 seasons and followed the misadventures of a group of socially awkward science geeks and their much cooler female neighbors. — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 18 July 2026

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Noun

Harbach is a gifted observer of undergraduates, their pathos and their comedy, but his Westish is a gentle and perhaps too-good-natured institution, where even the jocks are nerds.

— B. D. McClay, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Some Latinas are nerds, and some Latinas are quirky, and some of them are goofy and some of them are clumsy.

— Johanna Ferreira, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

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Yet other scholars, activists and intellectuals have their takes, too, on the Harlem Renaissance’s many political movements and bids for Black self-determination.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
These new lines of thought, which have gained prominence among influential defense intellectuals and policy experts close to the Kremlin over the past year do not need to be endorsed in formal security doctrine to matter.

— Dmitry Adamsky, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of intellectuals

Noun

Still, the question of what Ebel was doing with his adepts swept through Prussia, dominating the newspapers that had only recently begun to emerge from their eighteenth-century chronicling of obligations to a more modern publicizing role.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
He was investigated by the SS on the orders of Heinrich Himmler but convinced his investigators, all adepts of Deutsche Physik, that he was engaged in worthwhile teaching and research.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025

Definition of adepts

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Rooney’s growing list of supporters includes scholars like Amitav Ghosh, Namwali Serpell, Naomi Klein, and Slavoj Zizek.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
Nupedia was written and peer-reviewed by scholars, and was eventually supposed to make money from advertising.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of scholars

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Named the After Series, Anastassiades drew inspiration from Danish masters like Kaare Klint and Poul Kjærholm.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
The executives, for their part, were serving still more distant masters—shareholders, owners, and the CEO in his private jet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of masters

Noun

This earlier Russell work did not include acid queens, pinball wizards, or teenage-wasteland messiahs.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026
Produced by Hollywood stunt champs 87North, the hard-hitting wizards that have been redefining fight choreography since John Wick, Violent Night 2, like its predecessor, promises heaps of gory and satisfyingly kinetic fight scenes.

— Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of wizards

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Shark DePuffi Instant Contrast Therapy Tool Launched just this year, Shark’s DePuffi has quickly become a must-have for beauty gurus looking to sculpt, depuff, and soothe their faces in minutes.

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
According to awards gurus who track these things, that’s the most Emmy wins ever for a series canceled after its first season.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026

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