- a sudden impulse, idea, etc.: Her most recent brainstorm of teaching her dog to surf wasn’t met with much enthusiasm from the dog.
- a fit of mental confusion or excitement.
- a session of brainstorming.
- of or relating to brainstorming.
- to conduct or practice brainstorming, a technique for generating ideas and solving specific problems with uncensored and nonlinear thinking, usually performed through group participation in a spontaneous discussion where all ideas are noted without assigning them value, and no proposal is selected or discarded until after the conclusion of the creative exercise.
- to generate (ideas, solutions, questions, etc.) through brainstorming.
- a severe outburst of excitement, often as the result of a transitory disturbance of cerebral activity
- a sudden mental aberration
- informal another word for brainwave
