秀才しゅうさい (shuusai)

genius

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秀才 (しゅうさい, shuusai) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “genius”.

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Example sentences 10

かれはなかなかの 秀才しゅうさいです

He is a very talented man.

彼は秀才というよりはむしろ努力家だ。

He is a man of effort rather than a man of great talent.

あの秀才が不合格だなんて、猿も木から落ちるもんだ。

Anyone can make a mistake, like that prodigy who failed.

彼は大学で秀才だった割に(は)実社会であまり成功していない。

He's not doing very well in the business world considering that he was such a brilliant student at college. / He was a brilliant student at college, but, despite that, he is not doing very well in the business world.