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Definition of idiot savant in English: idiot savantnounPlural idiots savants, Plural idiot savants ˌɪdɪəʊˌiːdjəʊ saˈvɒ̃iːdjoʊsæˈvɑː̃ 1A person who has a mental disability or learning difficulties but is extremely gifted in a particular way, such as the performing of feats of memory or calculation. Example sentencesExamples - The character is a form of idiot savant who combines the disability with the compensating special powers.
- Dave's reluctant and unwitting partner in small time crookdom is best mate Happy - idiot savant and genius car breaker.
- The two brothers, one a genius and the other an idiot savant, generate, in their stream of consciousness, scatologically poetic and gloriously energetic comic prose that leaps off the page.
- So when we look at genius or child prodigies or musical geniuses or idiot savants, these are clues to the mystery of that infinitely creative mind that we can tap into.
- There ought to be a phrase - the opposite of idiot savant - for highly intelligent people who are also bloody fools.
Synonyms brilliant person, mental giant, mastermind, einstein, intellectual, intellect, brain, highbrow, expert, master, artist, polymath - 1.1 A person who is extremely unworldly but displays natural wisdom and insight.
Example sentencesExamples - The knee-jerk reaction is to write him off as an idiot savant, a working-class hero with a world-class haircut who doesn't have two brain cells to rub together.
- She may be illiterate and vapid, but next to him, she's a regular idiot savant marketing genius who cashed in on her B-list celebrity the moment it was about to expire.
- It might be said (rather than argued) that only a literary idiot savant like me would need a review to convince me that a graphic novel was worth reading and gave the Novel in general a powerful new direction.
- Whatever his motives, North's crusade has made him the idiot savant of big business.
- You get the playfully misdirecting mandarins, the I'm a-sensitive-genius melodramatists, the plain-speaking strongmen - or, at the extreme, the idiots savants: the guys who just don't know how they do it.
Origin French, literally 'knowledgeable idiot'. Definition of idiot savant in US English: idiot savantnouniːdjoʊsæˈvɑː̃ A person who has a mental or learning disability but is extremely gifted in a particular way, such as the performing of feats of memory or calculation. Example sentencesExamples - So when we look at genius or child prodigies or musical geniuses or idiot savants, these are clues to the mystery of that infinitely creative mind that we can tap into.
- There ought to be a phrase - the opposite of idiot savant - for highly intelligent people who are also bloody fools.
- The character is a form of idiot savant who combines the disability with the compensating special powers.
- The two brothers, one a genius and the other an idiot savant, generate, in their stream of consciousness, scatologically poetic and gloriously energetic comic prose that leaps off the page.
- Dave's reluctant and unwitting partner in small time crookdom is best mate Happy - idiot savant and genius car breaker.
Synonyms brilliant person, mental giant, mastermind, einstein, intellectual, intellect, brain, highbrow, expert, master, artist, polymath
Origin French, literally ‘knowledgeable idiot’. |