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brain

noun

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1 a very smart person

the brains all sit together at lunch

Synonyms of brain

brainiac, genius, intellect, thinker, whiz, wiz, wizard

Words Related to brain

polyhistor, polymath, Renaissance man

blue, bluestocking, highbrow, intellectual

sage, savant

egghead, geek, longhair, nerd

master, virtuoso

ace, crackerjack (also crackajack), natural

Near Antonyms of brain

ignoramus, illiterate, know-nothing, lowbrow

anti-intellectual, philistine

ass, donkey, fool, jackass

beast, boor, cad, churl, clown, creep, cretin, cur, heel, jerk, louse, lout, skunk, snake, stinker

Antonyms of brain

blockhead, dodo, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, goon, half-wit, hammerhead, idiot, imbecile, knucklehead, moron, nitwit, numskull (or numbskull), pinhead

2 often brains plural the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems

you have the brains to figure out that problem on your own

Synonyms of brain

brainpower, gray matter, headpiece, intellect, intellectuality, intelligence, mentality, reason, sense, smarts

Words Related to brain

eggheadedness, highbrowism, intellectualism

braininess, brilliance

acumen, alertness, apprehension, astuteness, discernment, discriminability, insight, judgment (or judgement), perception, percipience, perspicacity

common sense, horse sense, mother wit

aptitude, talent

sagacity, sapience, wisdom, wit

head, mind, skull

Near Antonyms of brain

denseness, density, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, fatuity, feeblemindedness, foolishness, half-wittedness, idiocy, imbecility, senselessness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity

3 the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons

I'd love to get inside his brain and experience the world as he experiences it

Synonyms of brain

cerebrum, head, mind, psyche, thinker

Words Related to brain

belfry, gray matter, intellect, intelligence, loaf [British slang], noodle, reason, skull

acumen, alertness, astuteness, brilliance, insight, judgment (or judgement), mentality, perception, perspicacity, sagacity, sapience, wisdom, wit

awareness, cognizance, consciousness, self-awareness, self-consciousness

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