Word of the Day... Cerebral

[Aunt Marg]

Cerebral: Medical, specialized; relating to the brain or the cerebrum.
"He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage".
"The patients frequently had a history of disease leading to cerebral damage".

Formal; demanding or involving careful thinking and mental effort rather than feelings.
"She makes cerebral films that deal with important social issues".
Chess is cerebral; video games are visceral.

Formal; intelligent and serious, and enjoying serious thought rather than emotion.
"His problem wasn't his policies, it was his personality".
"He was simply too cerebral and too out of touch".

 

[Kaila]

Those are rather cerebral definitions,


but it's very appropriate and fitting, for that particular word, and in this setting!

 

[RubyK]

Many years ago I worked in an office with a man who was a Ph d. Most of the morning he sat at his desk with his head propped up by his arm and hardly moved. The other secretaries said he was cerebral. I checked in on him one day and found out he was asleep!

 

[Kaila]

But was the cerebral co-worker, thinking serious complex thoughts while sleeping, or was he simply sleeping?

That is what I would like to know.
(Because I can get rather cerebral myself, for fleeting moments! )

 

[Buckeye]

My favorite cerebral is raisin bran. What's yours?

 

[Kaila]

My favorite cerebral is raisin bran. What's yours?

Is it because it's brain food?

 

[fmdog44]

My favorite cerebral is raisin bran. What's yours?

My favorite cerealbal is Super Heros. I got it when I was three.

 

[ohioboy]

I'm cerebral because I have a Cerebellum, even though I am a 3 stooges nitwit.

 

[terry123]

Not funny to me as I really am cerebral. Having 3 ruptured aneurysms is something I live with every day.

 

[ohioboy]

Not funny to me as I really am cerebral. Having 3 ruptured aneurysms is something I live with every day.

Cerebral as an "independent" word, is not funny or specific, since it has more than one meaning.. Your condition, "not independent" is a medical one, that is not funny either.

 

[Kaila]

to you, @terry123

 

[Keesha]

Not funny to me as I really am cerebral. Having 3 ruptured aneurysms is something I live with every day.

Not funny.

to you, @terry123

Ditto.

 

[cdestroyer]

many people on this forum need to be more cerebral,"Formal; demanding or involving careful thinking and mental effort rather than feelings."!

 

[RubyK]

But was the cerebral co-worker, thinking serious complex thoughts while sleeping, or was he simply sleeping?

That is what I would like to know.
(Because I can get rather cerebral myself, for fleeting moments! )

Some other co-workers felt he was thinking serious complex thoughts, but he was sleeping.
My ex husband is a Ph d and he did not think serious complex thoughts. That's why I checked on that guy.