supernerdy

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ nerdy.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

supernerdy (comparative more supernerdy, superlative most supernerdy)

1. Extremely nerdy.
   • 1996 July 8, Michael Krantz, “The Literature of Nerds Goes Mainstream”, in Time:

     Back in the 1950s, science-fiction literature earned a reputation as the opiate of supernerdy teenage boys: sturdy but unimaginative prose that waxed rhapsodic about G-forces and interstellar trajectories.

   • 2008, Nick Tasler, The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All, Fireside, →ISBN, page 37:

     Microsoft was a niche business catering to a relatively small network of supernerdy customers.

   • 2013, Ophira Eisenberg, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy‎^[1], Seal Press, →ISBN:

     My top two prospects: the supernerdy redhead Kieran, because he looked like the male version of the sexy librarian and might be a vivacious animal under that maroon cardigan; […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:supernerdy.

Synonyms

• supergeeky, ubergeeky, ubernerdy, ultrageeky, ultranerdy