Meanings
adjectiveovercerebral (comparative more overcerebral, superlative most overcerebral)
comparative more overcerebral · superlative most overcerebral
- Excessively cerebral.
As sensitive artists and overcerebral intellectuals, feeling that they were unable to function in the social world — unlike the practical, sober bourgeois.
1984, Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin, and ...
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with overcerebral
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APA
overcerebral. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcerebral
MLA
“overcerebral.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcerebral. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overcerebral,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcerebral.
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