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1 brainstorm -- rank: 1000

brainstorm definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the clear ... and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation [syn: insight, brainstorm, brainwave] v 1: try to solve a problem by thinking ... Cobuild Dictionary (brainstorms, brainstorming, brainstormed) 1. If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly. (BRIT) I can have a brainstorm and be very extravagant. N-COUNT 2. If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly have a clever idea. (AM; in BRIT, usually use brainwave) 'Look,' she said, getting a brainstorm, 'Why don't you invite them here?' = brainwave N- ...

2 brainstorming -- rank: 335

... attempt to devise or find a solution to a problem • brainstorm verb • brainstormer noun Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see brainstorm

3 brainwave -- rank: 335

... and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation [syn: insight, brainstorm, brainwave] Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 (usu. in pl.) an ... suddenly have a clever idea. (BRIT; in AM, usually use brainstorm) In 1980 she had a brainwave that changed her life ...

4 brain wave -- rank: 335

... wave, cortical potential] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1890 1. brainstorm 2a 2. a. rhythmic fluctuations of voltage between parts of ... produced by brain waves Moby Thesaurus automatic response, blind impulse, brainstorm, drive, fancy, flash, fleeting impulse, gut response, impulse, inspiration, instinct ...

5 Raving -- rank: 212

... beaming, bellowing, berserk, blooming, bluster, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bombast, brainstorm, bright, brilliant, bullying, bunk, bunkum, carried away, chaotic, claptrap, corybantic ...

6 Ranting -- rank: 212

... delirium, amok, babbling, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, brainstorm, bullying, carried away, corybantic, delirious, deliriousness, delirium, demoniac, desperate, distracted ...

7 Quirk -- rank: 212

... Moby Thesaurus aberration, anamorphism, anamorphosis, aroma, asymmetry, attribute, badge, boutade, brainstorm, brand, buckle, cachet, capriccio, caprice, cast, cavil, character, characteristic, conceit ...

8 passing fancy -- rank: 212

passing fancy definitions Moby Thesaurus boutade, brainstorm, calf love, capriccio, caprice, case, conceit, crank, craze, crazy idea ...

9 Kink -- rank: 212

... pain, birthmark, bite, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, boring pain, boutade, brainstorm, bug, bulla, capriccio, caprice, catch, charley horse, check, cicatrix, cicatrize ...

10 Instinct -- rank: 212

... response, automatic writing, automatism, bent, bias, blind impulse, brain wave, brainstorm, bump, caliber, capability, capacity, cast, collective unconscious, compulsiveness, conatus, conditioning ...

11 Inspiration -- rank: 212

... wheeze, automatic response, awakening, basis, blind impulse, brain wave, brainchild, brainstorm, brainwave, breath, breath of air, breathing, bright idea, bright thought ...

12 Insight -- rank: 212

... and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation [syn: insight, brainstorm, brainwave] 4: grasping the inner nature of things intuitively [syn ...

13 Ideal -- rank: 212

... thinking, basis, beau ideal, belief, best type, beyond all praise, brainstorm, calling, caprice, cause, celestial, chaste, chimerical, classic, classical, complete, complex ...

14 Humor -- rank: 212

... blood serum, blood substitute, bloodmobile, bloodstream, body-build, bogginess, boutade, brainstorm, brand, burlesque, capriccio, caprice, caricature, cast, cater to, chaffing, character ...

15 Maggot -- rank: 212

... Thesaurus alabaster, apparition, arachnid, arthropod, aurelia, bee, beetle, boutade, brainchild, brainstorm, bubble, bug, capriccio, caprice, caterpillar, centipede, chalk, chilopod, chimera, chrysalis ...