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Softheaded

Definition: Softheaded

Softheaded

Adjective

1. (informal) foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Softheaded

Synonyms: crazy (adj), half-baked (adj), meshuga (adj), meshugge (adj), screwball (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Softheaded

Language Translations for "softheaded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Thai

  

เซ่อ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Softheaded

Derivations

Words beginning with "softheaded": softheadedly, softheadedness, softheadednesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Softheaded

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-f-h-o-s-t"

-2 letters: softhead.

-3 letters: deadest, deafest, deashed, defeats, feasted, haddest, headset, sedated, shafted, sheafed, steaded.

-4 letters: dadoes, dashed, deaths, defats, defeat, doated, eddoes, fashed, fasted, feased, hafted, hasted, headed, heated, hefted, hodads, hosted, oddest, seated, sedate, shaded, teased.

-5 letters: aedes, ashed, dados, dated, dates, datos, deads, deash, death, deeds, deets, defat, doats, doest, doeth, dosed, doted.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-f-h-o-s-t"
 

+2 letters: softheadedly.

 

+4 letters: softheadedness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Softheaded


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

53 6F 66 74 68 65 61 64 65 64

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01101111 01100110 01110100 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#102 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0066 0074 0068 0065 0061 0064 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

53817286747167707170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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