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Synonyms & Antonyms of cognitive
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of, relating to, or involving conscious mental activities (such as thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering)
- cognitive development
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for cognitive
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for cognitive
- casuistic
- (or casuistical),
- eristic
- (also eristical),
- fallacious,
- misleading,
- sophistic
- (or sophistical),
- specious
- absurd,
- cockeyed,
- crazy,
- daffy,
- fatuous,
- half-baked,
- half-witted,
- harebrained,
- insane,
- loony
- (also looney),
- mad,
- nonsensical,
- nutty,
- preposterous,
- simpleminded,
- stupid,
- weak-minded,
- witless
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The first known use of cognitive was in 1586
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