Synonyms of the word

brain

• n. The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible…
• n. (informal) An intelligent person.
• n. (in the plural) Intellect.
• n. By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
• n. (slang, vulgar) oral sex.
• v. (transitive) To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
• v. (transitive, slang) To strike (someone) on the head.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To destroy; to put an end to.
• v. (transitive) To conceive in the mind; to understand.

brainiac

• n. (slang, sometimes derogatory) A very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person.

brainpower

• n. Mental ability; intelligence.
• n. Intelligent people considered as a group.

cognition

• n. The process of knowing.
• n. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.

encephalon

• n. (neuroanatomy) The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within…

genius

• n. (eulogistic) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated…
• n. Extraordinary mental capacity.
• n. Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
• n. (Roman mythology) The guardian spirit of a place or person.
• n. A way of thinking, optimizing one's capacity for learning and understanding.
• adj. (informal) ingenious, very clever, or original.

head

• n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
• n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
• n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
• n. A significant or important part.
• n. Headway; progress.
• n. Topic; subject.
• n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
• n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
• n. (slang) The glans penis.
• n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
• n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
• adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
• adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
• adj. Placed at the top or the front.
• adj. Coming from in front.
• v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
• v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
• v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
• v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
• v. (intransitive) To form a head.
• v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
• v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
• v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
• v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
• v. To set on the head.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

intellect

• n. the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty…
• n. the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable).
• n. a person who has that faculty to a great degree.

intellectual

• adj. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities,…
• adj. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge…
• adj. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by…
• adj. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental"…
• adj. (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
• n. An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
• n. (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

intelligence

• n. (uncountable) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire…
• n. (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
• n. (uncountable) Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
• n. (countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually…
• n. (dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

kill

• v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
• v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
• v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
• v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
• v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
• v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
• v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
• n. The act of killing.
• n. Specifically, the death blow.
• n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
• n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
• n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
• n. A kiln.

knowledge

• n. The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation…
• n. Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
• n. Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
• n. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
• n. (philosophical) Justified true belief.
• n. (archaic or law) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).
• n. (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.
• n. The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
• n. (countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
• n. (obsolete) Acknowledgement.
• n. (obsolete) Notice, awareness.
• n. (Britain, informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab…
• v. (obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.

mastermind

• n. A person with an extraordinary intellect or skill that is markedly superior to his or her peers.
• n. A person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation.
• v. To act in the role of mastermind.

mentality

• n. A mindset; a way of thinking.

mind

• n. The ability for rational thought.
• n. The ability to be aware of things.
• n. The ability to remember things.
• n. The ability to focus the thoughts.
• n. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
• n. Judgment, opinion, or view.
• n. Desire, inclination, or intention.
• n. A healthy mental state.
• n. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity,…
• v. (now regional) To remember.
• v. (now rare except in phrases) To concern oneself with, to pay attention to.
• v. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered…
• v. (now chiefly Canada, US, Ireland) To pay attention to; to listen attentively to, to obey.
• v. To pay attention to (something); to keep one's mind on.
• v. To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
• v. (chiefly in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that).
• v. To be careful about.
• v. (obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
• v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.

noesis

• n. (in psychology) cognition, the functioning of intellect.
• n. (in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
• n. (in metaphysical philosophy) the consciousness component of Neotic Theory, which concerns the duality…

nous

• n. (philosophy) The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional.
• n. In Neoplatonism, the divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation.
• n. Common sense; practical intelligence.

organs

• n. plural of organ.

psyche

• n. The human soul, mind, or spirit.
• n. (chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.
• abbr. psychology.
• interj. Used abruptly after a sentence to indicate that the speaker is only joking.
• v. (transitive) To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind.
• v. (transitive) To intimidate (someone) emotionally using psychology.
• v. (transitive, informal) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.

wit

• n. (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
• n. (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.
• n. Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
• n. The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
• n. Intelligence; common sense.
• n. Humour, especially when clever or quick.
• n. A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
• prep. (Southern US) Alternative spelling of with.