Numbery

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Good with numbers; mathematically inclined. colloquial, rare

    "But you might put autism aside and ask us what we have to say about someone like the three-year-old who announced at his first Math Circle class: “I'm very numbery”—and was."

  2. 2
    Resembling or involving numbers; numeric. informal

    "We started out, in Part I, with examples about acronyms and so on, but since then we’ve been working with numbery old numbers."

Example

More examples

"But you might put autism aside and ask us what we have to say about someone like the three-year-old who announced at his first Math Circle class: “I'm very numbery”—and was."

Etymology

From number + -y.

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