brainy
/ˈbɹeɪni/
brainy adjective: very intellectually capable.
Adjective
brainy (comparative brainier, superlative brainiest)
- Very intellectually capable.
- She's brainy as well as pretty.
- Antonyms:
- half-brained, brainless, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed
- 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
- There is a hammer and an anuile [within the ear]: whereof the hammer, ſtricking vpon the anuile, muſt of neceſſity beate off ſuch litle partes of the brainy ſteames, as flying about do light and ſticke vpon the toppe of the anuile: […]1644, Kenelme Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies; in the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule; Is Looked into: in Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules....
brainy meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
brainy in Urdu
- دماغ والا, مغزی, تیز, ٹھوس
brainy in Bengali
- brainy
- মগজদার mogjodar
brainy in Malayalam
- intelligent, clever, bright
- തലച്ചോറുള്ള, ബുദ്ധിയുള്ള, സൂക്ഷ്മബുദ്ധിയുള്ള, ധെെഷണികമായ സിദ്ധികളുള്ള, കേമ, സാധാരണയിൽക്കവിഞ്ഞ ബുദ്ധിസാമർത്ഥ്യമുള്ള
brainy in Kannada
- ಚತುರ, ಚುರುಕು ಬುದ್ಧಿಯ, ತೀಕ್ಷ್ಣಬುದ್ಧಿಯ
Examples of brainy in a sentence
- The two white threads, which in reuniting have ſtill left ſome ſpace between them, incloſe five little bags, which are the brainy ſubſtance, and the ſpinal marrow, which goes through to its extremity.1788, C[hristoph] C[hristian] Sturm, translated by a Lady, Reflections on the Works of God, and of His Providence, throughout All Nature...
- Another, accordingly, was made higher up, and from it a little brainy substance was brought out on the perforator.1882 June, G. Hamilton, “Obstetrical Observations.—Prolapsus of the Funis.”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, […], volume XXVII, part II...
- Could a fellow with such a bulge of brainy matter really fail to understand even one of these three simple terms?2003, William Mingin, “Greaves, This Is Serious”, in David G[eddes] Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, editors, Year’s Best Fantasy, volume 3, New...
Synonyms of brainy
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Antonyms
- half-brained
- brainless
- addlebrained
- addlepated
- airheaded
- bee-brained
- beef-witted
- soft
- beefheaded
- beetle-headed
10 more antonymsFewer antonyms
Forms of brainy
| comparative | brainier |
|---|---|
| superlative | brainiest |
Origin of brainy
From Middle English brayny; equivalent to brain + -y.
Words formed from brainy
Words that rhyme with brainy
Questions about brainy
- What does brainy mean?
- Brainy means very intellectually capable.
- What is brainy in Urdu?
- Brainy in Urdu is دماغ والا, مغزی, تیز. See Brainy meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use brainy in a sentence?
- The two white threads, which in reuniting have ſtill left ſome ſpace between them, incloſe five little bags, which are the brainy ſubſtance, and the ſpinal marrow, which goes through to its extremity.
- What part of speech is brainy?
- Brainy is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce brainy?
- Brainy is pronounced /ˈbɹeɪni/.
Words near brainy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: brainy (page history and authors); brainy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মগজদার (Bengali) (page history and authors); brainy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); brainy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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