Adjective: cerebral
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more cerebral |
| Superlative | most cerebral |
Sample Sentences
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Certainly, “Capital” is a cerebral read and the dangers of the world Marx lived in are not all the same as ours. [2024 September 19, James Miller, “Karl Marx, Weirder Than Ever”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:]
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His cerebral candidacy, inspired by European and North American political and economic philosophers, and his very appearance, with his light-colored skin, trim physique and penchant for preppy sweaters, contrasted with an electorate largely made up of impoverished Quechua-speaking people and Spanish-speaking mestizos. [2025 April 13, Simon Romero, “Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89”, in The New York Times:]
Adjectives inflected like cerebral
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowing from French cérébral, from Latin cerebrum (“a brain”); equivalent to cerebrum + -al. See: French Adjectives '
cérébral'.