Genius

Noun

 * 1) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
 * 2) Extraordinary mental capacity.
 * 3) inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
 * 4)  The guardian spirit of a place or person.
 * 5) A way of thinking, optimizing one's capacity for learning and understanding.

Adjectives for Genius
consummate; presiding; intellectual; inherent; interpretative; evil; unique; sublimest; engineering; sheer; ardent; sceptered; acute; fanciful; eloquent; bounding; sartorial; extraordinary; executive; untutored; unfettered; renovated; amiable; universal; persistent; various (plural); rare; decorative; sardonic; prodigious; military; solemn; solitary; gloomy; dramatic; inventive; erratic; singular; fresh; organizing; malignant; incredible; financial; disciplined; obscure; recessive; rich; evident; peculiar; diabolical; culinary; assured; stupendous; poetical; veritable; commanding; mathematical; autocratic; superior; musical; misdirected; unclarified; intrepid; dormant; harsher; precocious; strange; brightest; gigantic; statesmanlike; vigorous; feminine; inventive; meditative; political; desultory; unique; pining; irritated; artificial; middling; majestic; maiden; innate; contriving; sullen; capricious; saturnine; fertile; legislative; bountiful; puissant; tutelary; Individual; creative; special; ethnic; massive; fiery; lofty; true; masterly; evil; mature; adroit; tragic; predominant; mundane; characterized.

Verbs for Genius
acclaim—; attain—;  befriend—; endow with—; exhibit—; inspire—; marvel at—; nourish—; nurture—; produce—; recognize —; starve—; tincture—with; trifle with—; waste—;   worship—;  —aspires to; — creates; —enlightens; —produces; —fructifies; —glows; —ripens; —triumphs.

Synonyms for Genius
brilliance, talent, expertise,  adroitness,  intellect,  skill, bent, brains, character, nature, adeptness, ability, disposition, gift, capacity, power, aptitude, endowment, knack, leaning, quality, faculty, wisdom, astuteness, propensity, perspicacity, grasp, judgment, sagacity, discernment, acumen, wit.

Antonyms for Genius
idiot, ignorance, witlessness, idiocy, folly, incapacity, silliness, imbecility, inability, moroseness, stupidity, foolishness, asininity, brainlessness, incompetence, stolidity, shallowness, obtuseness, fatuity, ineptitude, senility, ineptness, inaptitude, inaptness, irrationality, simplicity.

Related terms

 * engine
 * engineer
 * genie
 * ingenious
 * ingeniosity

Thesaurus
maestro, magician, mahatma, makeup, makings, man of genius, man of learning, man of letters, man of parts, manes, master, master hand, mastermind, mental alertness, mental genius, mental giant, mercurial mind, metier, mine of information, ministering angel, mold, moving spirit, muse, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, native cleverness, natural, natural endowment, natural gift, nature, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, nonpareil, nous, numen, originality, paragon, parts, past master, penates, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, physique, poetic imagination, polyhistor, polymath, potential, power, powers, practiced hand, principal, prodigy, proficiency, property, pundit, qualification, quality, quick parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, rakshasa, ready wit, ruler, sage, satan, savant, savvy, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, senior, shaping imagination, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, shedu, skilled hand, smartness, smarts, somatotype, sort, soul, special providence, speciality, specter, spirit, sprightly wit, stamp, star, streak, stripe, strong flair, strong point, student, succubus, suchness, sufficiency, superior, superman, supernatural being, superstar, susceptibility, system, talent, talents, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, the goods, the greatest, the most, the stuff, the undead, tone, top dog, topnotcher, totem, turn, tutelar god, tutelary, type, understanding, vampire, vein, virtuoso, walking encyclopedia, way, what it takes, whiz, wit, wizard, wonder, yogini, A per se, Baba Yaga, Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Geist, Lilith, Melpomene, Muse, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, ability, ableness, academician, ace, acuity, acuteness, adept, adequacy, adroitness, afflatus, afreet, ancestral spirits, angel, animating spirit, animation, animus, aptitude, aptness, artistic imagination, astuteness, attendant godling, atua, barghest, bent, body-build, bookman, boss, brain, braininess, brains, brand, brightness, brilliance, bump, cacodemon, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, cast, champion, character, characteristic, characteristics, chief, child prodigy, classicist, clear thinking, clerk, cleverness, colossus of knowledge, commander, competence, complexion, composition, conception, constituents, constitution, control, crackerjack, crasis, creative imagination, creative power, creative thought, creativity, daemon, daeva, daimonion, dean, demon, devil, dexterity, dharma, diathesis, disposition, divine afflatus, dower, dowry, dybbuk, efficacy, efficiency, endowment, enlivenment, equipment, esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, esprit, ethos, evil genius, evil spirit, evil spirits, exhilaration, expert, facility, faculty, fairy godmother, familiar, familiar spirit, fiber, fiend, fiend from hell, fire, fire of genius, firing, first-rater, fitness, flair, forte, frame, fugleman, genie, genius domus, genius loci, ghoul, giant of learning, gift, gifted child, gifted person, giftedness, gifts, good angel, good genius, good hand, grain, grasp, great, guardian, guardian angel, guardian spirit, guide, gyre, habit, head, hellion, higher-up, household gods, hue, humanist, humor, humors, ilk, incubus, infection, infusion, ingenuity, inspiration, instinct, intellect, intellectual genius, intellectual prodigy, intelligence, inventiveness, invisible helper, jinni, jinniyeh, keen-wittedness, keenness, kind, knack, lamia, lares and penates, lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini, lares praestites, lares viales, laureate, leader, leading light, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, long suit, lover of learning, luminary,

Etymology
From genius: < gignere:, OL. genere:, the root gen:; see genus.

Translations

 * Armenian: հանճար (hanč̣ar)
 * Catalan: geni
 * Chinese: 天才 (tiān cái)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: geenius
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: μεγαλοφυία, ιδιοφυία


 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Japanese: 天才 (tensai)
 * Korean: 천재 (天才, cheonjae)
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian:, генијалец
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: gênio, gênia
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, genia


 * Armenian: հանճար (hanč̣ar)
 * Catalan: geni
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: genialiteit
 * Estonian: geniaalsus
 * Finnish:
 * German: Genialität


 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Russian: гениальность (geniál’nost’), одарённость (odarjónnost’)
 * Slovene: genialnost
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From Latin gens, household, clan, tribe + suffix -ius.

Noun

 * 1) household guardian spirit