Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for cerebral
The synonym for cerebral recorded in this bank is intellectual, in the sense "involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for cerebral
- intellectualadjective, in the sense "involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and cerebral carries one sense so far.
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
A cerebral approach to the problem.
The true synonym
intellectual
Same sentence, swapped: A intellectual approach to the problem.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where cerebral stands in the sentence above.
- pitched
- rounded
- mid
Where cerebral turns up in the game
cerebral is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where cerebral is the trap
- gutturaladjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is croaky, in the sense "like the sounds of frogs and crows", and cerebral is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play cerebral
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cerebral reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
cerebral is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.