Harebrained

Definitions: Harebrained

Harebrained

Adjective

1. Very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains".

Date "harebrained" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Synonyms: Harebrained

Synonyms: insane (adj), mad (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Rashness	Hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive. overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty, jaunty, free and easy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Harebrained

English words defined with "harebrained": Hairbrained. (references)

Play	Caption
	Cackle; chortle; chuckle; guffaw; hee-haw; snicker; snigger; tehee; titter; twitter; absurd; asinine; brainless; cockamamie; crazy; crazy; daffy; daft; dingy; dippy; doltish; dotty; fantastic; fatuous; feebleminded; half-baked; half-witted; harebrained; i.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Harebrained" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Harebrained" is used about 9 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)	88.89%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (past tense)	11.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

Language		Translations for "harebrained"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mendjelehtë (airily, facile, featherbrain, featherbrained, featherheaded, frivolous, giddy, hoity toity, light minded, light-headed, lightsome, unreflecting, unthinking, vain), mendjefyell (rattle-brain, rattle-pate), karafil (carnation, clove, sweet william). (various references)

Arabic		‏طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise), ‏خفيف العقل, ‏أرعن (light hearted, mad, ranter). (various references)

Bulgarian		вятърничав (flighty, flyaway, scatter-brained, skittish), лекомислен (airy, airy fairy, dizzy, empty headed, fast, featherbrained, flip, flippant, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harum scarum, idle, inconstant, light, light minded, light-headed, scatter-brained, superficial, trivial, unreflecting, unthinking). (various references)

Chinese		�'失. (various references)

Czech		splašený (rattle-headed), šílený (berserk, crackpot, crazy, demented, frenzied, furious, insane, lunatic, mad, manic, terrible, terrific, tomfool). (various references)

Farsi		گیج (Astound, Astray, Dizzy, Giddy, Hazy, Stupid, Wacky), وحشی (Barbaric, Barbarous, Brutal, Ferocious, Gross, Rambunctious, Ruffian, Ruttish, Savage, Truculent, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Undaunted, Ungovernable, Unshaped(En), Wild), سبک مغز (Idiot, Imbecile, Silly), دیوانه (Bedlam, Berserk, Crazy, Cuckoo, Demented, Fanatic, Fey, Gaga, Insane, Loco, Loony, Lunatic, Mad, Madbrained, Madcap, Manic, Natural, Nut, Nutty, Psychotic), بی پروا (Adventurer, Audacious, Confident, Daredevil, Dashing, Headlong, Heady, Heedless, Impetuous, Inconsiderate, Rash, Reckless, Slapdash, Unadvised, Unscrupulous). (various references)

French		??? (hardworking). (various references)

German		närrisch (clownish, foolish, mad, madly, scatty, silly). (various references)

Hebrew		פוחז (foolhardy, irresponsible, reckless), פזיז (careless, fickle, hasty, headlong, impetuous, impulsive, nimble, precipitous, rash, slapdash, slaphappy). (various references)

Hungarian		kelekótya (featherbrained, feather-brained, feather-headed, hare-brained, harum scarum, harum-scarum, scatter-brained). (various references)

Italian		scervellato (madcap). (various references)

Norwegian		tankeløs. (various references)

Pig Latin		arebrainedhay.(various references)

Portuguese		desatento (carefree, careless, deaf, distraught, inattentive, inobservant, light minded, listless, mindless, regardless, scatterbrained, unobservant), campainha (bell, blue bell, campane, chimes, handbill, morning gown, set of bells, sounding device, striking mechanism of clock, tinkler). (various references)

Russian		глупый (anserine, apish, asinine, barmy, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, brain dead, brainless, cloddish, daft, dense, doddery, drippy, fatuous, fat-witted, featherbrain, featherbrained, feather-brained, foolish, gaga, goofy, 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, featherbrained, feather-brained, giddy, light-headed, scatterbrained, scatter-brained, windy), опрометчивый (headlong, heady, hot-headed, ill-advised, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, overbold, precipitate, rash, reckless, unwary), неосторожный (incautious, indiscreet, unwary), безрассудный (blind, daft, dare devil, desperate, foolhardy, foolish, hellbent, rash, reckless, swashbuckling, temerarious, unreasonable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ćaknut (batty, cracked, crackers, moonstruck, queer, soft, soft-headed, touched, wacky, whacky). (various references)

Spanish		Tonto (ass, cabbagehead, calvish, clod-poll, crass, crazed, cretin, dimwit, dink, dispensary, dummy, dunderhead, fool, foolish, greaseproof paper, idiot, idiotic, idleheaded, jenny ass, lemon, loose, nonsensical, numbhead, pinhead, silly, simple minded, soft, soft-headed, soppy, spoony, stupid, unwise, wall eyed, witless), casquivano (bird brained, bird witted, empty headed, feckless, light-headed, rattle-brained, whippersnapper), atolondrado (careless, frivolous, harum scarum, lightheaded, madcap, muddle-headed, reckless, scatterbrained, scatty). (various references)

Swedish		tanklös (blithe, brash, harum scarum, heedless, improvident, inattentive, insensible, light, light-headed, scatter-brained, scatty, thoughtless, unguarded, unthinking). (various references)

Turkish		kuş beyinli (addle-brain, addle-pate, bird brained, bird witted, birdbrain, dizzy, empty headed, feather brain, feather-brained, nitwit, pinhead, shallow-brained), kafasız (addle-brained, addle-pated, duffer, headless, light in the head, soft, soft in the head, stupid, tomfool, unsophisticated, witless), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit). (various references)

Ukranian		необачний (hasteful, hasty, headlong, hot-brained, ill-advised, imprudent, overbold, over-hasty, precipitant, slap bang, slapdash), дурний (anserine, asinine, balmy, bat-minded, bovine, cloddish, cracked, daft, dense, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, gawky, goofy, idle-headed, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, oafish, obtuse, opaque, owlish, pigheaded, sappy, sottish, spoony, stockish, stupid, thoughtless). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Harebrained" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hairbrained. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "harebrained" (pronounced he"rbrā'nd)
3	-ā' n d	bloodstained, outgained.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	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, bender, binder, birder, birred, briard, brined, briner, darner, dearer, dearie, denari, denier, dharna, earned, earner, endear, errand, haired, harden, harder, header, hearer, heired, herbed, herder, herein, hernia, hinder, inbred, indaba, inhere, neared, nearer, nereid, radian, raider, rained, reader, reared, rebind, rebred, redear, rediae, reearn, rehear, rehire, reined, render, reread, riband.
	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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