cerebral

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

   We took a cerebral approach to the problem.

2. 2
   adj

   of or relating to the cerebrum or brain

   The cerebral hemisphere is larger than usual.

3. 3
   adj

   Intellectual rather than emotional or physical.

   Certainly, “Capital” is a cerebral read and the dangers of the world Marx lived in are not all the same as ours.

Borrowing from French cérébral, from Latin cerebrum (“a brain”); equivalent to cerebrum + -al.

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