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BRAINPOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brainpower mean? 

BRAINPOWER (noun)
  The noun BRAINPOWER has 1 sense:

1. mental abilityplay

  Familiarity information: BRAINPOWER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BRAINPOWER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Mental ability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

brain; brainpower; learning ability; mental capacity; mentality; wit

Context example:

he's got plenty of brains but no common sense

Hypernyms ("brainpower" is a kind of...):

intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)


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