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brain

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of brain

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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