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Definition: BRAINED |
BRAINEDAdjective1. Supplied with brains. Imperative & past participle1. Of Brain |
Date "BRAINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: BRAINED |
| Specialty definitions using "BRAINED": head-bone grinder ♦ SKULL GRINDER ♦ turbinated-bone grinder. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BRAINED": birdbrained, crackbrained, featherbrained, harebrained, lamebrained, rattlebrained, scatterbrained. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BRAINED" (pronounced brā"nd) |
| 4 | -r ā" n d | constrained, craned, drained, grained, ingrained, rained, refrained, reigned, reined, restrained, retrained, sprained, strained, trained, unconstrained, unrestrained, untrained. |
| 3 | -ā" n d | abstained, 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. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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