Synonyms and Antonyms of brain
1
a very smart person - The president promised to have the best brains working on the problem.
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
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.
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
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.
gray matter, intellect, intelligence, noodle, reason, skull
acumen, alertness, astuteness, brilliance, insight, mentality, perception, perspicacity, sagacity, sapience, wisdom, wit
