ungenius

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noun

A person who is not a genius.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounungenius (countable and uncountable, plural ungeniuses)

plural ungeniuses

  1. countableA person who is not a genius.

    Serenus Zeitblom, serene flower of the age, good-hearted, long-winded, the ungenius par excellence whose ungenius is his license to speak.

    1995, Benjamin Taylor, Into the Open: Reflections on Genius and Modernity, page 90
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    For a heady moment I wanted to fling the notebook down and say to them: you write about geniuses and ungeniuses if you like, but don't teach me how to do it, I won't be able to do it anyway. I'd be better acting instead of you.

    1987, Stefano Micossi, Julie A. E. Curtis, Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero, page 34
  2. uncountableLack of genius.

    Serenus Zeitblom, serene flower of the age, good-hearted, long-winded, the ungenius par excellence whose ungenius is his license to speak.

    1995, Benjamin Taylor, Into the Open: Reflections on Genius and Modernity, page 90

Origin

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