Synonyms of brainy

brainy

adjective

ˈbrā-nē 

as in intelligent

having or showing quickness of mind

a brainy student who didn't fit in socially

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intelligent
• clever
• smart
• quick
• brilliant
• fast
• bright
• sharp
• exceptional
• keen
• wise
• educated
• skilled
• nimble
• supersmart
• quick-witted
• sharp-witted
• hyperintelligent
• alert
• cunning
• resourceful
• cerebral
• literate
• sensible
• ingenious
• perceptive
• astute
• savvy
• creative
• erudite
• schooled
• sagacious
• insightful
• acute
• ultrasmart
• learned
• apt
• scholarly
• logical
• knowledgeable
• rational
• perspicacious
• heady
• discerning
• trained
• inventive
• well-read
• informed
• prudent
• genial
• judicious
• highbrow
• wily
• knowing
• sane
• sound
• reasonable
• shrewd
• crafty
• sapient
• sage
• percipient
• foxy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dumb
• dense
• stupid
• simple
• brainless
• dopey
• unintelligent
• vacuous
• mindless
• obtuse
• dull
• slow
• doltish
• thick
• fatuous
• dim
• soft
• opaque
• brain-dead
• witless
• dorky
• senseless
• thickheaded
• pinheaded
• boneheaded
• weak-minded
• dopy
• dunderheaded
• lamebrain
• lamebrained
• softheaded
• feebleminded
• silly
• simpleminded
• foolish
• dim-witted
• airheaded
• idiotic
• slow-witted
• empty-headed
• gormless
• bubbleheaded
• imbecilic
• moronic
• lunkheaded
• imbecile
• knuckleheaded
• unsmart
• half-witted
• ignorant
• thick-witted
• birdbrained
• uneducated
• chuckleheaded
• illiterate
• unintellectual
• uninformed
• nonintellectual
• unthinking
• unbrilliant
• zany
• untaught
• unacademic
• lowbrow
• nutty
• wacky
• mad
• kooky
• crazy
• dippy
• absurd
• insane
• daffy
• loony
• preposterous
• unwise
• nonsensical
• whacky
• lunatic
• sappy
• harebrained
• asinine
• cuckoo
• fool
• balmy
• dotty
• daft
• half-baked
• screwball
• cockeyed
• idiotical
• crackpot
• looney
• boobish
• kookie
• tomfool
• featherheaded

Examples of brainy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Now entering his third season as the Minnesota Vikings’ head coach, O’Connell, 38, partners with brainy General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, a former Ivy League basketball player who holds economics degrees from Princeton and Stanford. —Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024

And Villeneuve, who proved once again his prowess for making cinematic sense of Frank Herbert’s bold vision, is the kind of director who can turn brainy sci-fi stories into broadly appealing big-screen spectacles. —Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024

In the Navy, the high testers are destined for the nuclear program, cryptology, air-traffic control, and similarly brainy endeavors — but with mental horsepower can come personality quirks and socialization oddities that can be targeted with medication. —Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024

Meg, like L’Engle herself, is brainy, stubborn, headstrong, prone to anger at injustice and determined to do things her own way. —Abigail Santamaria, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2024