a budding genius

A young person who exhibits signs of great intelligence. This kid's a budding genius—have you seen the complex equations he can solve?

budding genius

a very bright and promising young person. Harry is a budding genius, but he seems like a fairly normal teenager.

See also: budding, genius

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Add to this their newfound ability to research where an item can be found and how much it costs, and in an instant you have a budding genius.

PARENTING : TURN A CHILD'S NAGGING INTO A LESSON IN PATIENCE

Precocious both in mind and spirit, Thomasina is a budding genius, equally capable of discerning her elders' darkest secrets or of spotting the flaws in Newton's model of an orderly universe.

ERAS, WORLDVIEWS SLAM TOGETHER IN STOPPARD'S BRAINY `ARCADIA'

in 1915, to a well-off, self-indulgent father and an artistic and demanding mother, George Orson Welles was deemed a prodigy, a budding genius whose expressive gifts were encouraged from infancy.

ENIGMATIC WELLES UNCAPPED

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