English Dictionary

nerd

IPA（発音記号）

/nɜːd/

名詞

軽蔑的 俗語 時々 くだけた表現

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted. / (informal, sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.

日本語の意味

（スラング、時に侮蔑的な用法で）知的だが概して内向的な人。 / （非公式な用法で、時に侮蔑的な表現）何かに対して非常に熱中し、執着心を抱く人。

When he stayed late in the lab again, his coworkers joked that he was a nerd, but his research spoke for itself.

彼がまた研究室に夜遅くまで残っていると、同僚たちは彼を知的で内向的な人だと冗談半分に言ったが、彼の研究はそれ自体で物語っていた。

意味（1）

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted.

They particularly enjoy making fun of one of their fellows who is not present, whom they consider a hopeless nerd – until, that is, they learn he is engaged to marry the boss's daughter.

意味（2）

(informal, sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.

a computer nerd

意味（3）

(slang, always derogatory) An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.

Only a nerd would wear yellow and blue stripes with green pants.

意味（4）

A member of a subculture revolving around video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media. [from 1980s]

nerds （ plural ）