Associations to the word «Brainiac»

Wiktionary

BRAINIAC, noun. (slang) (sometimes derogatory) A very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person.

Dictionary definition

BRAINIAC, noun. Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats