Synonyms and Antonyms of brain
1
a very smart person
- the brains all sit together at lunch
polyhistor, polymath, Renaissance man
blue, bluestocking, highbrow, intellectual
sage, savant
egghead, geek, longhair, nerd
master, virtuoso
ace, crackerjack (also crackajack), natural
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
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
