1. cerebral - Noun
2. cerebral - Adjective
Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.
One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMuch literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. Charles Krauthammer
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. Rita Coolidge
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves. Henri Bergson
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman,- Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin. Henry Adams
Of course I'm delighted that Fun Home has met with such success, but it still strikes me as very unlikely that an odd, cerebral story about a lesbian and her closeted gay suicidal mortician father would have struck a chord with anyone but me. Alison Bechdel