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BRAINED

Definition: BRAINED

BRAINED

Adjective

1. Supplied with brains.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Brain

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BRAINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)


Synonyms within Context: BRAINED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Insanity

Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BRAINED

Specialty definitions using "BRAINED": head-bone grinderSKULL GRINDERturbinated-bone grinder. (references)

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Modern Usage: BRAINED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I burst my pimples at you and call your door-opening request a silly thing; you tiny brained wipers of other peoples' bottoms (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

We have scrimped and saved for that money and everytime we get a little bit ahead you have to go blow it on some hair brained scheme (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein)

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

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Spoken Usage: BRAINED

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

Jimmy Carter would have brained someone with his hammer to have the economic growth and unemployment rates we have today.

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

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Usage Frequency: BRAINED

"BRAINED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "BRAINED" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)71.43%5157,705
Lexical Verb (past participle)14.29%1339,140
Adjective (general or positive)14.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%7N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: BRAINED

Expression using "BRAINED": bird brained. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "BRAINED": large-brained, pea-brained.

Containing "BRAINED": hare-brained woman, pretty-little-feather-brained-only-good-for-one-thing-bimbo-know-nothing-woman's-head, rattle-brained youngster.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRAINED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

brained right

18

brained left

11

brained brained left right

8

brained left right

7

brained brained left right vs

2

brained child right

2

brained

2

addle brained follower latest political

2

brained people right

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BRAINED

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

Albanian

  

trupeshk (bird brained), i pamend (brainless, dizzy, dumb, foolish, inane, injudicious, mad, mindless, pinheaded, rattle-brained, rattle-headed). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie). (various references)

   

Czech

  

hloupý (awkward, brainless, cretinous, daft, dull, empty headed, fatuous, fat-witted, foolish, half-witted, inane, lame brain, logy, mutton-headed, silly, soft-brained, spoony, stupid, thick, thickskulled). (various references)

   

French

  

idiote (bird brained), écervelé (bird brained). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

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

   

Hebrew 

  

מטומטם (bird brained, dense, dopey, dullard, gaga, goon, half wit, halfwitted, imbecile, lame brain, lout, muddleheaded, oafish, obtuse, sot, stupid, thickheaded, woodenheaded). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ostoba (asinine, bird brained, blockish, brainless, Daffy, doltish, dry, dumb, dump, dunce, fatuous, feeble minded, goofy, hulking, idiotic, inane, inept, lack-brain, lame brain, loggerheaded, Looby, numb-skull, numskull, oafish, owlish, preposterous, puerile, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, slow, sot, stupid, thick-headed, to cut capers, tomfool, witless, wooden-headed). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kepala angin (rattle brained). (various references)

   

Manx

  

bransit (dashed, smashed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainedbray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

louco (brain sick, bughouse, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, distraught, far gone, fey, fool, foolish, frenetic, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, maniacal, nuts, phrenetic, raving, wacky). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tont (addle-brained, blockhead, brain-hampered, chump, dim, dull-witted, dummy, dunderhead, goofy, nitwit, noodle, oaf, oafish, sap, thick-headed), tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, 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), descreierat (brainless, desperate, hare-brained, madcap, reckless). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

глупый человек (bird brained), глупый (anserine, apish, asinine, barmy, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, brain dead, brainless, cloddish, daft, dense, doddery, drippy, fatuous, fat-witted, featherbrain, featherbrained, feather-brained, foolish, gaga, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, inane, inept, mindless, mutton-headed, nitwitted, nonsensical, oafish, sappy, silly, simple-minded, soft-headed, spoony, stupid, thickskulled, thick-skulled, thick-witted, timber-headed, unwise, wooden-headed), ветреный (blowy, breezy, corky, featherbrain, featherbrained, feather-brained, giddy, harebrained, light-headed, scatterbrained, scatter-brained, windy), безмозглый (addle-brained, brainless, witless), помешанный (addle-brained, barking mad, bonkers, brain-sick, cracked, crackpot, cracky, crazy, deranged, hipped, hooked, kooky, mad, maniac, moonhead, moonstruck). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pileći mozak (bird brained). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

olvidadizo (absentminded, absentmindedness, bird brained, bird witted, forgetful), mentecato (bird brained, bird witted, goof, goofy, moronic, peahead, prune, silly), majadero (bird brained, bird witted, birdbrain, pestle, silly), estúpido (addle-brained, 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), casquivano (bird brained, bird witted, empty headed, feckless, harebrained, light-headed, rattle-brained, whippersnapper). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tanklös (blithe, brash, harebrained, harum scarum, heedless, improvident, inattentive, insensible, light, light-headed, scatter-brained, scatty, thoughtless, unguarded, unthinking), dum (addled, bird brained, blithering, crass, daft, dense, doltish, dopey, dopy, dumb, empty headed, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, idle-headed, insensate, lumpish, nitwitted, oafish, opaque, phoney, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, rattle-pated, sappy, silly, stupid, witless). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

beyinli. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

гарячий (ardent, broiling, earnest, fervent, hot, hot tempered, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, mettled, mettlesome, ornery, scalding, torrid, warm), нерозумний (brute, crack-brained, footling, ill-judged, impolitic, insensate, silly, unreasonable, wacky, witless), божевільний (addle-brained, 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), безглуздий (absurd, addle-brained, addle-pated, barmy, blind, brainless, brute, crack-brained, crazy, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, impertinent, insane, ludicrous, meaningless, nail biting, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, senseless, wanton, wet). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đần độn (anserine, blear-eyed, blockish, boeotian, brutish, chuckle-headed, cock-eyed, doltish, fat-headed, fatuous, fat-witted, feather-brained, feather-headed, feather-pate, feather-pated, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, pigheaded, puddingy, purblind, slow-witted, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unapprehensive, witless). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BRAINED

Derivations

Words ending with "BRAINED": birdbrained, crackbrained, featherbrained, harebrained, lamebrained, rattlebrained, scatterbrained. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BRAINED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baine, barajneh, barient, barine, Braiden, braimed, Brainard, braine, brainer, braited, braized, branden, Braniak, bravine, Braynes, Breifne, briared, Brijinder, Bruijne. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BRAINED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BRAINED" (pronounced brā"nd)
4-r ā" n dconstrained, craned, drained, grained, ingrained, rained, refrained, reigned, reined, restrained, retrained, sprained, strained, trained, unconstrained, unrestrained, untrained.
3-ā" n dabstained, arraigned, ascertained, attained, campaigned, caned, chained, complained, contained, detained, disdained, entertained, explained, feigned, gained, maintained, maned, obtained, ordained, pained, pertained, planed, preordained, regained, remained, retained, stained, sustained, unexplained, unstained, waned.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BRAINED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: abider, bander, binder, brined, denari, inbred, rained, rebind, riband.

-2 letters: abide, aider, aired, ardeb, bairn, baned, barde, bared, beard, bider, braid, brain, brand, bread, bride, brine, deair, debar, denar, dinar, diner, drain, irade, nadir, rabid, ranid, rebid, redan, redia.

-3 letters: abed, abri, aide, airn, arid, bade, band, bane, bani, bard, bare, barn, bead.

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

+1 letter: bearding, bilander, brandied, brandies, breading, debonair, endbrain.

 

+2 letters: badgering, bandolier, bargained, bedraping, bilanders, breadline, debarking, debarring, drinkable, endbrains, firebrand, gabardine, gaberdine, rabidness, snakebird, unbraided, unridable, urbanised, urbanized, windbreak.

 

+3 letters: abridgment, banderilla, banditries, bandoliers, banistered, bartending, bedwarfing, blandisher, boundaries, brandished, brandishes, breadlines, brigandage, brigandine, broadening, brominated, carbonized, debonairly, disbarment, drinkables, firebrands, gabardines, gaberdines, hibernated, inbreathed, inebriated, linerboard, misbranded, panbroiled, reboarding, redbaiting, reobtained, ringbarked, snakebirds, submarined, timberland, turbinated, unabridged, windbreaks.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Spoken
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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