| Main Entry: | intellect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capability of the mind; someone with capable mind |
Synonyms: |
ability, acumen, brains, cerebration, comprehension, egghead, genius, intellectual, intellectuality, intelligence, intuition, judgment, mentality, mind, psyche, pundit, reason, savvy, sense, smarts, thinker, understanding, what it takes, wits |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
Synonyms: |
acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
Antonyms: |
denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | apprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
Synonyms: |
awareness, comprehension, grasp, idea, intellect, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, notion, perception, perspicacity, thought |
Antonyms: |
imperception, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | brain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very smart person |
Synonyms: |
Einstein, academician, doctor, egghead, genius, highbrow, intellect, intellectual, mastermind, prodigy, pundit, sage, scholar |
Antonyms: |
dumbo, dumdum, simpleton |
| Main Entry: | brain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mind, intelligence |
Synonyms: |
cerebellum, cerebrum, encephalon, gray matter, head, intellect, medulla oblongata, mentality, upper story, wit |
Antonyms: |
body, physicality |
| Main Entry: | depth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight, wisdom |
Synonyms: |
acuity, acumen, astuteness, brain, discernment, intellect, intelligence, keenness, penetration, profoundness, profundity, sagacity, sense, sharpness, weightiness |
| Main Entry: | head |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, intelligence |
Synonyms: |
aptitude, aptness, bent, brains, capacity, faculty, flair, genius, gift, intellect, knack, mentality, mind, talent, thought, turn, understanding |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, inability, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | intelligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perceive, understand |
Synonyms: |
IQ, acuity, acumen, agility, alertness, aptitude, brainpower, brains, brightness, brilliance, capacity, cleverness, comprehension, coruscation, discernment, gray matter, intellect, judgment, luminosity, mentality, mind, penetration, perception, perspicacity, precocity, quickness, quotient, reason, sagacity, savvy, sense, skill, smarts, subtlety, the right stuff, trenchancy, understanding, what it takes, wit |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, inability, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | mentality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind; intelligence |
Synonyms: |
IQ, attitude, brainpower, brains, cast, character, comprehension, disposition, frame of mind, headset, intellect, intelligence quotient, makeup, mental age, mind, mindset, outlook, personality, psychology, rationality, reasoning, routine, sense, turn of mind, understanding, way of thinking, wit |
Antonyms: |
physicality |
| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intelligence |
Synonyms: |
apperception, attention, brain*, brainpower, brains, capacity, cognizance, conception, consciousness, creativity, faculty, function, genius, head, imagination, ingenuity, instinct, intellect, intellectual, intellectuality, intuition, judgment, lucidity, marbles, mentality, observation, perception, percipience, power, psyche, ratiocination, reason, reasoning, regard, sanity, sense, soul, soundness, spirit, talent, thinker, thought, understanding, wisdom, wits |
Antonyms: |
body, corporeality, physicality |