cerebral
suh-REE-bruladjMeaning having to do with careful thinking rather than feelings
Memory hook CEREBRUM = the BRAIN: thinking fun. While the other kids race around the field, Sami sits under a tree working out a chess puzzle; he likes the cerebral kind of fun.
Chess is a cerebral game, all planning and no luck.
In context Her brother loved action movies full of car chases, but Ada preferred cerebral films, where the excitement came from puzzles and clever conversation.
Similar intellectual, thoughtful, analytical, academic
Opposite emotional, physical, instinctive
From Latin cerebrum (brain).