Synonyms and Antonyms of cerebral
1
much given to learning and thinking
- a very cerebral jurist who has given much thought to what makes our nation's constitution work
blue, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic, long-haired (or longhair), nerdish, nerdy
cultivated, cultured
middlebrow
erudite, learned, literate, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly, well-read
academic (also academical), bookish, professorial
didactic, high-toned, hyperintellectual, pedantic
high-hat, snobbish, snobby, snooty
educated, schooled
brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, smart
uncultivated, uncultured
ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered, unread
dumb, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), moronic, slow, stupid, unintelligent
benighted, unenlightened
2
of or relating to the mind
- a young man given more to cerebral pursuits than to sporting activities
cognitive, conscious, epistemic, knowing
noetic
psychic (also psychical), telepathic
alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, rational, reasoning, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, thinking
bodily, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, physical, somatic
unconscious
brainless, dense, doltish, dopey (also dopy), fatuous, half-witted, mindless, obtuse, simple, slow-witted, stupid, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, weak-minded, witless
