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brained

[ breynd ]

adjective

  1. having a particular type of brain (used in combination):

    small-brained dinosaurs.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of brained1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; brain, -ed 3

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Example Sentences

McConnell can presumably fob this off on his Beltway-brained consultants.

So Murdoch, cold-blooded and lizard-brained, knows he must preserve his own position while somehow ensuring a peaceful succession.

See a timeline of their hare-brained schemes—including sticking credit cards to their foreheads—and assorted misdemeanors.

He’s just finished shooting a remake of Absolutely Fabulous (that hare-brained, alcoholic ‘90s Britcom).

The Republican Party seems to have been brained by a heavy cloud followed by an equally heavy sky-blue shape.

It was no brash idea, no hare-brained impulse concocted in one's cups, perhaps.

The bishop and his episcopals can not be hair-brained enough to seek to restore old conditions and assail our liberty.

Did I not hear that hare-brained youngster declare this evening that money was made round that it might roll.

“He is crack-brained, and calls himself the King,” she murmured.

The same act which would proclaim their own treachery would deliver into our hands this hare-brained adventurer.

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