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brain-damaged

brain-damaged adjective: suffering from an injury to the brain.

Adjective (1)

brain-damaged (comparative more brain-damaged, superlative most brain-damaged)

  1. Suffering from an injury to the brain.

Adjective (2)

brain-damaged (comparative more brain-damaged, superlative most brain-damaged)

  1. (derogatory, slang) Poorly designed; obviously wrong.
    Synonyms:
    cretinous, demented

Synonyms of brain-damaged

Forms of brain-damaged

comparativemore brain-damaged
superlativemost brain-damaged

Origin of brain-damaged

From brain + damaged.

Generalization of “Honeywell Brain Damage” (HBD), a notional disease invented to explain certain poor design decisions in Honeywell Multics.

Questions about brain-damaged

What does brain-damaged mean?
Brain-damaged means suffering from an injury to the brain.
What part of speech is brain-damaged?
Brain-damaged is an adjective.

Words near brain-damaged in the dictionary

  1. brain-bending
  2. brain-bucket
  3. brain-buckets
  4. brain-cramp
  5. brain-cramps
  6. brain-damaged
  7. brain-dead
  8. brain-deads
  9. brain-drain
  10. brain-drained
  11. brain-draining

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