cerebral

cerebral
    adj 1: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct;
           "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
           [syn: {cerebral}, {intellectual}] [ant: {emotional}]
    2: of or relating to the cerebrum or brain; "cerebral
       hemisphere"; "cerebral activity"
    

Cerebral \Cer"e*bral\, a. [L. cerebrum brain; akin to Gr. ka`ra
   head: cf. F. c['e]r['e]bral. See {Cheer}.] (Anat.)
   Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.
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   {Cerebral apoplexy}. See under {Apoplexy}.
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Cerebral \Cer"e*bral\, n. [A false translation of the Skr.
   m[=u]rdhanya, lit., head-sounds.]
   One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian
   languages. See {Lingual}, n.
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   Note: Prof. W. D. Whitney calls these letters linguals, and
         this is their usual designation in the United States.
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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "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