right-brainedadj.
/ˈrʌɪtbreɪnd/, U.S. /ˈraɪtˌbreɪnd/ Originally Psychology and Neurology.
Having the right hemisphere of the cerebrum dominant over the left; involving or associated with activity of the right hemisphere; (in later popular use) intuitive or creative. Cf. right brain adj.See note at right brain n.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective]
imaginativec1405
inventivec1450
feigning1483
creativea1513
inventative1541
inventious1591
conceitful1594
forgetive1600
productive1612
projecting1614
excogitous1646
plastic1662
ingeniary1664
formful1730
forgeful1751
inventful1797
original-minded1797
original1803
originative1811
vivid1814
fingent1837
constructive1841
right-brained1871
poietic1905
1871 Brit. Jrnl. Homœopathy 29 42 For as there are left-handed people may there not be right-brained people, who make use of the right instead of the left convolutions?
1891 P. Carus Soul of Man 174 We have reason to believe that left-handed people are right-brained speakers.
1921 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry 5 746 Dr. McDonald thought that left-handed people were right-brained only when left-handedness was familial, and not when it was sporadic.
1989 P. E. Vernon in J. A. Glover et al. Handbk. Creativity v. 100/2 On the basis of quite inadequate evidence, it has been claimed that all creative activities are right-brained.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Mar. iii. 2/4 Artists..are creative, right-brained people who tend to be turned off to the mundane left-brain side of the world, such as finances.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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