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brain-melting

brain-melting adjective: overwhelming in a way that prevents coherent thought.

Adjective

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

  1. (informal) overwhelming in a way that prevents coherent thought
    • And I was already suffering from a brain-melting lack of sleep anyway. But despite all that, I was actually feeling surprisingly fresh.2009, Kevin Brooks, Black Rabbit Summer, page 22

Forms of brain-melting

comparativemore brain-melting
superlativemost brain-melting

Questions about brain-melting

What does brain-melting mean?
Brain-melting means overwhelming in a way that prevents coherent thought.
What part of speech is brain-melting?
Brain-melting is an adjective.

Words near brain-melting in the dictionary

  1. brain-farts
  2. brain-fever
  3. brain-fever bird
  4. brain-gain
  5. brain-gains
  6. brain-melting
  7. brain-meltingly
  8. brain-numbing
  9. brain-pan
  10. brain-pans
  11. brain-picking

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