nerdnoun [ C ]
uk/nɜːd/us/nɝːd/informal disapprovinga person, especially a man, who is not attractive and is awkward or socially embarrassing:
He was a real nerd in high school - I can't believe he's so handsome now.
a person who is extremely interested in one subject, especially computers, and knows a lot of facts about it:
I'm a real grammar nerd.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inability and awkwardness
- accident-prone
- all thumbs idiom
- amateurish
- at your worst idiom
- awkward
- boil
- fumble
- gauche
- geek
- ham-fisted
- have nothing on sb or sth idiom
- incapacitate
- maladroit
- no great shakes idiom
- not have a prayer idiom
- obey
- organize
- paralysed
- prone
- rubbish
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nerdy
adjective uk/ˈnɜː.di/us/ˈnɝː.di/informal disapproving
He's nice, but kind of nerdy.
These glasses make me look/feel nerdy.