brain

brain is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
2. noun. The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
3. noun. The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
4. noun. The affections; fancy; imagination.
5. transitive verb. To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
6. transitive verb. To conceive; to understand.
7. noun. that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

   Synonyms: encephalon

8. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: head, mind, nous, psyche

9. noun. mental ability

   "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"

   Synonyms: brainpower, mentality, wit

10. noun. the brain of certain animals used as meat
11. noun. someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

    "Mozart was a child genius"

    "he's smart but he's no Einstein"

    Synonyms: brainiac, einstein, genius, mastermind

12. verb. kill by smashing someone's skull
13. verb. hit on the head

Synonyms

encephalon, head, mind, nous, psyche, brainpower, mentality, wit, brainiac, einstein, genius, mastermind

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in brain:

abrin, bairn, brian, rabin

Common word forms

brains, brained, brainer, braining, brainless

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