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Definitions: Featherbrained |
FeatherbrainedAdjective1. Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "featherbrained" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
Synonyms: FeatherbrainedSynonyms: airheaded (adj), dizzy (adj), empty-headed (adj), giddy (adj), lightheaded (adj), light-headed (adj), silly (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Featherbrained |
| English words defined with "featherbrained": Feather-head. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "featherbrained": Feather-head. (references) |
Expression using "featherbrained": featherbrained person. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "featherbrained"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mendjelehtë (airily, facile, featherbrain, featherheaded, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hoity toity, light minded, light-headed, lightsome, unreflecting, unthinking, vain), mendjefyçkë (coxcomb, featherbrain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лекомислен (airy, airy fairy, dizzy, empty headed, fast, flip, flippant, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, harum scarum, idle, inconstant, light, light minded, light-headed, scatter-brained, superficial, trivial, unreflecting, unthinking), празноглав (empty headed, featherheaded, fluffy, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, rattle-pated, vacant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ztřeštìný (crazy, wildcat, zany), potrhlý (cranky, freakish), přiblblý, lehkomyslný (airy, featherheaded, frivolous, heedless, light minded, reckless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kelekótya (feather-brained, feather-headed, harebrained, hare-brained, harum scarum, harum-scarum, scatter-brained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatherbrainedfay fátuo (fatuous, foppery, goofy), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, idiotic, ignoramus, imbecile, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpishness, mindlessly, mutton head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous), apaparicar. (various references) глупый (anserine, apish, asinine, barmy, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, brain dead, brainless, cloddish, daft, dense, doddery, drippy, fatuous, fat-witted, featherbrain, 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, feather-brained, giddy, harebrained, light-headed, scatterbrained, scatter-brained, windy). (various references) lakomislen (devil may care, featherbrain, flippant, frivolous, improvident, inconsiderate, light minded, light-headed, thoughtless). (various references) necio (apish, clod, fatuous, fool, foolish, loggerhead, ludicrous, poor, silly, simper, vacuous), con cabeza de chorlito, cascabelero. (various references) virrig (confused, desultory, dizzy, featherheaded, featherpated, helter-skelter, indiscriminate, jumbly, muddled, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, rambling, scatter-brained, scatty, screwed up), huvudlös (desperate, featherheaded, featherpated, headless, insensate, mindless). (various references) легковажний (airy, careless, daft, flighty, frivolous, giddy, gossipy, harum scarum, hoity toity, light-headed, lightsome, puerile, volatile), дурний (anserine, asinine, balmy, bat-minded, bovine, cloddish, cracked, daft, dense, fatuous, fool, foolish, gawky, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, oafish, obtuse, opaque, owlish, pigheaded, sappy, sottish, spoony, stockish, stupid, thoughtless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-e-f-h-i-n-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: featherbrain. | |
-3 letters: harebrained, hereinafter. | |
-4 letters: featherbed, featherier, hibernated, inbreathed, interbreed, interfered, threadbare. | |
-5 letters: aberrated, bartender, benefited, benefiter, breathier, feathered, firebrand, heartened, hereafter, herniated, hibernate, inbreathe, inearthed, interbred, interfere, irredenta, referenda, refrained, reradiate, retrained, threadfin, threadier. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 61 74 68 65 72 62 72 61 69 6E 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .- - .... . .-. -... .-. .- .. -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100010 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e a t h e r b r a i n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0061 0074 0068 0065 0072 0062 0072 0061 0069 006E 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4071678674718468846775807170 |
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