cerebral
If you are a cerebral person, no one would ever call you a drama queen. You make decisions using your intelligence and cold, hard facts, instead of your emotions.
The word cerebral gets its meaning from cerebrum, which is Latin for "brain." Cerebral people use their brains instead of their hearts. The cerebrum is a particular section of the brain, and anything related to that part is also cerebral, like in medicine. A cerebral hemorrhage, for example, means a hemorrhage has occurred in the brain — a phrase you'd never want to hear coming from a doctor.
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of or relating to the cerebrum or brain“cerebral hemisphere”“cerebral activity”
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involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct“a cerebral approach to the problem”“cerebral drama”synonyms: intellectualantonyms:emotionaldetermined or actuated by emotion rather than reason
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Arnold Spirit, Jr., a young cartoonist who lives on the Spokane Indian reservation, decides to transfer to a school in which he will be the only American Indian student.
Charlie Gordon goes through an experimental treatment to increase his intelligence, with unexpected and ultimately tragic results.