nerd
noun/nɜrd/
Frequency rank: #6,371 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a person who is very studious or obsessively interested in academic or technical subjects, often seen as socially awkward.
Example sentence
My classmate is a total nerd who reads textbooks for fun.
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