brainstorm

1. 1.

   try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it

   Broaderthink

Other forms of brainstorm

plural

brainstorms·

past tense

brainstormed·

present participle

brainstorming·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brainstorm

What does brainstorm mean?

brainstorm means "the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brainstorm?

brainstorm has 2 syllables: brain-storm. The stress falls on "brain". In IPA it is /ˈbɹeɪnˌstɔɹm/.

What is another word for brainstorm?

Close synonyms include insight, brainwave. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brainstorm a common word?

brainstorm is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with brainstorm?

9 words rhyme with brainstorm. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.