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brainier

brainier is the comparative form of brainy.

Meaning of brainy

Adjective

brainy (comparative brainier, superlative brainiest)

  1. (informal) Very intellectually capable.
    • She's brainy as well as pretty.
  2. (rare) Of or relating to the brain.
    • You shal vnderstande that there springeth of the brayny substaunce of his for*most Ventrikles, two senewes, […]1577 [1548], Thomas Vicary, The Anatomie of the Bodie of Man […], part I, London: […] [F]or the Early English Text Society by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1888, page 36
    Synonyms:
    brainial, cerebral

Questions about brainier

What is brainier the comparative form of?
Brainier is the comparative form of brainy.

Words near brainier in the dictionary

  1. braingraphs
  2. brainhood
  3. brainiac
  4. brainiacs
  5. brainial
  6. brainier
  7. brainiest
  8. brainily
  9. braininess
  10. braining
  11. brainish

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