| brainiac | | |
| n. (person) | 1. brain, brainiac, einstein, genius, mastermind | someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality.; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein" |
| ~ intellectual, intellect | a person who uses the mind creatively. |
| ~ prodigy | an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration.; "she is a chess prodigy" |
| smart | | |
| n. (state) | 1. smart, smarting, smartness | a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore. |
| ~ hurting, pain | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" |
| v. (perception) | 2. ache, hurt, smart | be the source of pain. |
| ~ sting, bite, burn | cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.; "The sun burned his face" |
| ~ burn | feel hot or painful.; "My eyes are burning" |
| ~ itch | have or perceive an itch.; "I'm itching--the air is so dry!" |
| ~ hunger | feel the need to eat. |
| ~ thirst | feel the need to drink. |
| ~ act up | make itself felt as a recurring pain.; "My arthritis is acting up again" |
| ~ throb | pulsate or pound with abnormal force.; "my head is throbbing"; "Her heart was throbbing" |
| ~ shoot | cause a sharp and sudden pain in.; "The pain shot up her leg" |
| ~ cause to be perceived | have perceptible qualities. |
| adj. | 3. smart | showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness. |
| ~ astute, shrewd, sharp | marked by practical hardheaded intelligence.; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" |
| ~ cagey, cagy, canny, clever | showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" |
| ~ street smart, streetwise, with-it | having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment. |
| ~ intelligent | having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree.; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question" |
| adj. | 4. chic, smart, voguish | elegant and stylish.; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut" |
| ~ stylish, fashionable | having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.; "a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey"; "the stylish resort of Gstadd" |
| adj. | 5. bright, smart | characterized by quickness and ease in learning.; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average" |
| ~ intelligent | having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree.; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question" |
| adj. | 6. fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise | improperly forward or bold.; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!" |
| ~ forward | used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty.; "a forward child badly in need of discipline" |
| adj. | 7. smart | painfully severe.; "he gave the dog a smart blow" |
| ~ intense | possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree.; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense" |
| adj. | 8. smart | quick and brisk.; "I gave him a smart salute"; "we walked at a smart pace" |
| ~ fast | acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly.; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car" |
| adj. | 9. smart | capable of independent and apparently intelligent action.; "smart weapons" |
| ~ automatic | operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control.; "automatic transmission"; "a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts" |
| wise | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. wise | a way of doing or being.; "in no wise"; "in this wise" |
| ~ fashion, manner, mode, style, way | how something is done or how it happens.; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" |
| n. (person) | 2. stephen samuel wise, wise | United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949). |
| ~ religious leader | leader of a religious order. |
| n. (person) | 3. isaac mayer wise, wise | United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900). |
| ~ religious leader | leader of a religious order. |
| adj. | 4. wise | having or prompted by wisdom or discernment.; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment" |
| ~ advisable | worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise.; "such action is neither necessary nor advisable"; "extreme caution is advisable"; "it is advisable to telephone first" |
| ~ advised, well-advised | having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel.; "a well-advised delay in carrying out the plan" |
| ~ politic | marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness.; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply" |
| ~ prudent | careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment.; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight" |
| ~ all-knowing, omniscient | infinitely wise. |
| ~ perspicacious, sagacious, sapient | acutely insightful and wise.; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators" |
| ~ owlish | resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance. |
| ~ sapiential | characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God.; "a sapiential government" |
| ~ sage | having wisdom that comes with age and experience. |
| adj. | 5. heady, judicious, wise | marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters.; "judicious use of one's money"; "a wise decision" |
| ~ prudent | careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment.; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight" |
| adj. | 6. knowing, wise, wise to | evidencing the possession of inside information. |
| ~ informed | having much knowledge or education.; "an informed public"; "informed opinion"; "the informed customer" |
| brain | | |
| n. (body) | 1. brain, encephalon | that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord. |
| ~ circle of willis | a ring of arteries at the base of the brain. |
| ~ arteria communicans, communicating artery | any of three arteries in the brain that make up the circle of Willis. |
| ~ neural structure | a structure that is part of the nervous system. |
| ~ brain cell | a nerve cell in the brain. |
| ~ central nervous system, cns, systema nervosum centrale | the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord. |
| ~ neencephalon, neoencephalon | the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts. |
| ~ forebrain, prosencephalon | the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube. |
| ~ mesencephalon, midbrain | the middle portion of the brain. |
| ~ hindbrain, rhombencephalon | the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem. |
| ~ brain-stem, brain stem, brainstem | the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus. |
| ~ ventricle | one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid. |
| ~ head, caput | the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains.; "he stuck his head out the window" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit | mental ability.; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense" |
| ~ intelligence | the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. brain, head, mind, nous, psyche | that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason.; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head" |
| ~ cognition, knowledge, noesis | the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning. |
| ~ noddle | an informal British expression for head or mind.; "use your noddle" |
| ~ tabula rasa | a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke). |
| ~ ego | (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind. |
| ~ unconscious, unconscious mind | that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware. |
| ~ subconscious, subconscious mind | psychic activity just below the level of awareness. |
| n. (food) | 4. brain | the brain of certain animals used as meat. |
| ~ organs, variety meat | edible viscera of a butchered animal. |
| ~ calf's brain | the brain of a calf eaten as meat. |
| v. (contact) | 5. brain | hit on the head. |
| ~ hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.; "He hit her hard in the face" |
| v. (contact) | 6. brain | kill by smashing someone's skull. |
| ~ kill | cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
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