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RATTLE-BRAINED

Definition: RATTLE-BRAINED

RATTLE-BRAINED

Adjective

1. Giddy; rattle-headed.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: RATTLE-BRAINED

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

Imbecility Folly

Weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained; rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle-pated; dim-sighted, short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper story.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: RATTLE-BRAINED

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

Albanian

  

kokëbosh (blinker, blockish, clod, empty headed, fop, pigheaded, rattle-headed), i pamend (brainless, dizzy, dumb, foolish, inane, injudicious, mad, mindless, pinheaded, rattle-headed). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نزق (cranky, cross, irritable, mad, pernickety, pettiness, petulance, quick, ratty, scatter-brain, snippy, testy, tetchy, touchiness), ‏طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

празноглав (empty headed, featherbrained, featherheaded, fluffy, rattle-headed, rattle-pated, vacant). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

attle-brainedray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

pateta (Batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, domain, doodle, drivelling, dumb, dupe, Fanny, father, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackass, jay, jolty, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, look, lubberliness, lummox, moon-eyed, mutt, muttony, natural, nine, ninny, ninny-hammer, niveous, noddy, noodle, nun, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-headed, Sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), frívolo (baubling, conceited, Cork, Corky, flinch, footman, frivolous, futile, giddy, impulsive, light, light-headed, lightweight, nugatory, shallow, trifling, vain), desmiolado (madcap, rattle-headed, witless), de cabeça-oca (rattle-headed). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cap sec (addle-head, empty pate, loggerhead, mutton head, numskull, pin head, rattle-headed). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

praznoglav (empty headed, rattlebrained). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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-headed, senseless, soft, stupe, stupid), casquivano (bird brained, bird witted, empty headed, feckless, harebrained, light-headed, whippersnapper). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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-headed, rattle-pated, sappy, silly, stupid, witless). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

пустоголовий (addle-brained, addle-pated, empty headed, idle-headed, rattle-headed). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

long tay gãy ngõng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RATTLE-BRAINED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rattlebrained.

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

-2 letters: rattlebrain, retrainable.

-3 letters: alternated, arbitrated, reattained, retaliated.

-4 letters: aberrated, alienated, aliterate, alternate, arbitrate, attainder, bartender, blattered, breadline, interbred, interlard, intreated, irredenta, liberated, reradiate, retaliate, retardant, retardate, retrained, tailender, trabeated, tradeable, trailered, trainable, treatable.

-5 letters: aberrant, alienate, alterant, anteater, antedate, antlered, arbitral, arterial, attained, attainer, attender, bantered, banterer, barreled, barrette, bartered, battened, battener, battered, batterie, berretta, bidental, bilander, birretta, bittered, bitterer, blearier, brantail, brattier, brattled, brittled, brittler, dateable, dateline, deniable, dentalia, detailer, detainer, detrital, dilatant, dilatate, editable, elaterid, elaterin, entailed, entailer, entitled, eradiate, inarable, interbed, interred, iterated, labiated, lariated, laterite, liberate, librated, lineated, linebred, literate, littered, litterer, narrated, nattered, nearlier, nettable, nettlier, nitrated, radiable, rateable, rattened, rattener, readable, reattain, rebaited, relearnt, renailed, rendible, rentable, retailed, retailer, retained, retainer, retinted, retirant, retitled, rideable, tableted, talented, tarletan, tearable, terrible, titrable, trabeate, tradable, treadler, treenail, trendier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RATTLE-BRAINED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 41 54 54 4C 45 2D 42 52 41 49 4E 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000001 01010100 01010100 01001100 01000101 00101101 01000010 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#65 &#84 &#84 &#76 &#69 &#45 &#66 &#82 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0041 0054 0054 004C 0045 002D 0042 0052 0041 0049 004E 0045 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5235545446391536523543483938

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INDEX

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


  

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