Cerebral

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: cer=e=bral

CIDE DICTIONARY

Cerebral, a. [L. cerebrum brain; akin to Gr. ka`ra head: cf. F. cérébral. See Cheer.].

 Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.  [1913 Webster]

Cerebral apoplexy. See under Apoplexy.

Cerebral, n. [A false translation of the Skr. mūrdhanya, lit., head-sounds.].

 One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n.  [1913 Webster]
" Prof. W. D. Whitney calls these letters linguals, and this is their usual designation in the United States."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Cerebral, adj.
1 of the brain.
2 intellectual rather than emotional.
3 = CACUMINAL.

Idiom

cerebral hemisphere each of the two halves of the vertebrate cerebrum. cerebral palsy Med. spastic paralysis from brain damage before or at birth, with jerky or uncontrolled movements.

Derivative

cerebrally adv.

Etymology

L cerebrum brain

THESAURUS

Cerebral

accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, checked, close, conceptive, conceptual, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, endopsychic, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual, intellectualistic, intelligent, internal, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mental, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, noetic, noological, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, phrenic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, psychic, psychical, psychologic, psychological, rational, reasoning, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, spiritual, stopped, stressed, strong, subjective, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, thinking, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

ROGET THESAURUS

Cerebral

Intellect

N intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle, rationality, cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties, faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius, brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers, wit, ability, wisdom, Vernunft, Verstand, soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core, the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle, brain, organ of thought, seat of thought, sensorium, sensory, head, headpiece, pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story, central processing unit, CPU, arithmetic and logical unit, ALU, metaphysics, psychics, psychology, ideology, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of the mind, pneumatology, phrenology, craniology, cranioscopy, ideality, idealism, transcendentalism, spiritualism, immateriality, universal concept, universal conception, metaphysician, psychologist, intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual, ghostly, psychical, psychological, cerebral, animastic, brainy, hyperphysical, superphysical, subconscious, subliminal, immaterial, endowed with reason, in petto, ens rationis, frons est animi janua, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, mens sola loco non exulat, my mind is my kingdom, stern men with empires in their brains, the mind, the music breathing from her face, thou living ray of intellectual Fire.