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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Brain-dead adj. [common] Brain-damaged in the extreme. It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity. "This comm program doesn't know how to send a break -- how brain-dead!". Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence or want of Intellect | Moron, imbecile, idiot; fool; dumb animal; vegetable, brain-dead. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Don't tell me those brain-dead lowlifes are calling me again. (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) It's just my character that's not brain-dead. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "BRAIN-DEAD" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BRAIN-DEAD" is used about 16 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% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BRAIN-DEAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 脑子死. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 두뇌 죽". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ain-deadbray โง่เง่ามาก, สมองและส่วนสำคัญไม่ทำงาน. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BRAIN-DEAD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: braindead. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-e-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: brandied. | |
-2 letters: abraded, araneid, bandaid, bandied, braided, brained, branded, brinded, dandier, drained. | |
-3 letters: abided, abider, abrade, badder, baddie, banded, bander, barded, bedrid, bidden, bidder, binder, birded, brined, dander, darned, denari, inbred, indaba, radian, raided, rained, rebind, riband, ridden, rinded. | |
-4 letters: abide, adder, aided, aider, aired, anear, ardeb, arena, baaed, bairn, baned, barde, bared, beard. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-d-e-i-n-r" | |
+3 letters: unbarricaded. | |
+4 letters: breadboarding. | |
+5 letters: biodegradation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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