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Date "HARE-BRAINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Hare-brained or ~~~Hair-brained. Hair-brained. Mad as a March hare, giddy, foolhardy. "Let's leave this town; for they [the English] Are hair-brained slaves, And hunger will enforce them to be more Eager." Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI., i. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inattention | Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HARE-BRAINED |
| Specialty definitions using "HARE-BRAINED": TOTTY-HEADED. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942) | |
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| "HARE-BRAINED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HARE-BRAINED" is used about 19 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
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| Language | Translations for "HARE-BRAINED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | grua mendjelehtë (hare-brained woman, jilt, light-o'-love, minx). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | insensé, écervelé (harum scarum, hasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | hirnverbrannt (inane, screwball), hirnrissig (benighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοκορόμυαλοσ (scatterbrained), ελαφρόμυαλοσ (featherbrain, frivolous, harum scarum, light-headed, scatterbrained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, imprudent, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary), bolond (batty, berk, bonkers, coxcomb, cracked, crackpot, crazed, crazy, daft, dement, demented, dippy, droll, fool, foolish, goofy, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, nutter, nutty, off the beam, ratty, scatty, screwy, to be not such a fool as people make out, to be nuts, to be up the pole, up the pole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bodoh (dull, dumb, fool, idiot, obtuse, wooden-headed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhag-cheayllagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | are-brainedhay zãpãcit (confounded, confused, dawdler, dim, distracted, dizzy, flighty, giddy, headless, light-headed, madcap, muddle-headed, mused, muzzy, off one's dot, perplexedly, rash, reckless, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, topsy turvy, woolly-headed, wronghead, wrongheaded), nesãbuit (foolish, harum scarum, hell-bent, insensate, mad, rashly, reckless, recklessly, wild), descreierat (brainless, desperate, madcap, reckless), aiurit (blunder-head, distracted, distraught, driveller, drivelling, flighty, foolish, giddy, irresponsible, light-headed, muddle-head, nut, oddball, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, twaddling, whiffler, wool gathering, wrongheaded). (various references) nông nổi (light, light-headed), liều lĩnh (dare-devil, harum-scarum, rash, reckless, temerarious, venturesome, wildcat), khinh suất (harum-scarum, hasty, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, precipitate, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, unreflecting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: harebrained. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-h-i-n-r-r" | |
-3 letters: barehead, diarrhea, hairband, hardener, harridan, herbaria, hinderer, reharden. | |
-4 letters: abrader, adherer, airhead, aneared, araneid, barnier, beadier, berried, braider, brained, brander, dernier, drainer, errhine, handier, hardier, harried, headier, herbier, herniae, herried, inbreed, inhered, nerdier, randier, readier, reheard, rehired. | |
-5 letters: abider, abrade, adhere, aedine, aeried, aerier, arider, bander, barred, barren, beaned, beanie, bearer, behead, behind. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-h-i-n-r-r" | |
+3 letters: featherbrained. | |
+4 letters: weatherboarding. | |
+5 letters: weatherboardings. | |
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