cerebrate

Other forms of cerebrate

past tense

cerebrated·

present participle

cerebrating·

third person

cerebrates·

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 cerebrate

What does cerebrate mean?

cerebrate means "use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments".

How many syllables are in cerebrate?

cerebrate has 3 syllables and divides as ce-re-brate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cerebrate?

Close synonyms include think, cogitate. 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 cerebrate a common word?

cerebrate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.