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ADDLE-BRAINED

Definition: ADDLE-BRAINED

ADDLE-BRAINED

Adjective

1. Alt. of Addle-pated

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: ADDLE-BRAINED

Language Translations for "ADDLE-BRAINED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i turbulluar (addle-head, addle-pated, blear, bleary, foggy, roily), i çoroditur (addle-pated, anile, erratic, haywire, perverse). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

шантав (crackpot, goofy, scatty, screwy), объркан (bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), побъркан (addle-headed, addle-pated, cockeyed, crank, crazy, cuckoo, demented, having a screw loose, light-head, light-headed, mental, moonstruck, nutty, touched), изкуфял (doddering, doddery, doited, doting, gaga, senile). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zmatený (addle-pated, bemused, bewildered, chaotic, confused, disordered, embroiled, in confusion, mazy, mixed, muddy, screwed up, turbid), popletený (addle-headed, addle-pated, befuddled, confused). (various references)

   

French

  

brouillon (addle, addled). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άμυαλοσ (brainless, daft, foolosh, weak-headed). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zavaros elméjű (addle-headed, addlepated), tökfejű (addle-headed, addlepated). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

addle-braineday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

tolo (addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), estúpido (addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

zevzec (addle-brain, addle-headed, blockhead, simpleton, thick-headed), tont (blockhead, brain-hampered, chump, dim, dull-witted, dummy, dunderhead, goofy, nitwit, noodle, oaf, oafish, sap, thick-headed), tâmpit (addle, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, dim, donkey, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, squarehead, stupid, sucker). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пустоголовый (addle-pate, empty headed, empty-headed, idleheaded, idle-headed, rattlebrained, rattle-brained). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

smušen (addle-head), smeten (confused, muddleheaded, muddle-headed, puzzled, puzzle-headed, streaked), budalast (addle-pate, cock eyed, cockeye, daffy, dippy, dopey, dopy, foolish, half-witted, idleheaded, infatuated, nitwitted). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estúpido (addle-head, addle-pated, anserine, asinine, blockhead, blunderhead, bone head, brainless, coot, crass, dense, dim witted, donkey, dull, dullard, idiot, idiotic, lame brain, lumpish, obtuse, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, senseless, soft, stupe, stupid). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sersem (addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), kafasız (addle-pated, duffer, harebrained, headless, light in the head, soft, soft in the head, stupid, tomfool, unsophisticated, witless), şaşkın (addled, addle-headed, addle-pated, all abroad, at an end, bemused, bepuzzle, bewildered, confused, consternated, dizzy, dumbfounded, gaping, happy, open-eyed, pixilated, puzzled, puzzle-headed, sheepish, slaphappy, taken aback, thunderstruck, twisted, wide-eyed, wondering). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

божевільний (addle-pated, batchy, bedlam, brainsick, crack-brained, crackpot, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, frenetic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, non compos, nuts, nutty, possessed, rabid, scatty), безтямний (addle-pated, enthusiastic, enthusiastical, frenzied), безглуздий (absurd, addle-pated, barmy, blind, brainless, brute, crack-brained, crazy, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, impertinent, insane, ludicrous, meaningless, nail biting, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, senseless, wanton, wet), пустоголовий (addle-pated, empty headed, idle-headed, rattle-brained, rattle-headed), причинний (addle-pated, batchy, causal, causative). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

rối trí, quẫn trí (distracted, distraught, hinge), đầu óc lẫn quẫn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ADDLE-BRAINED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-d-e-e-i-l-n-r"

-2 letters: bandleader.

-3 letters: bedridden, breadline.

-4 letters: beladied, bilander, brandied, brindled, dandered, deadlier, deadline, debrided, deniable, derailed, inarable, laddered, linebred, radiable, readable, rebidden, redialed, redlined, renailed, rendible, rideable.

-5 letters: abelian, abraded, addable, addenda, addible, adrenal, alidade, aliened, aliener, aneared, araneid, badland, bandaid, bandied, beadier, bearded, bedrail, berline, bielded, bladder, blander, bleared, blended, blender, blinded, blinder, bradded.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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