harebrained
harebrained adjective: absurd, foolish or stupid.
Adjective
harebrained (comparative more harebrained, superlative most harebrained)
- Absurd, foolish or stupid.
- “Now why do I get the feeling we're not talking about the harebrained plan you came up with?” “It wasn't harebrained.” “Did it have you going within twenty feet of a whorehouse at night, unchaperoned?” He knew darn well it did.2008, Sarah McCarty, Promises Reveal, Penguin, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded
- Frivolous and silly; featherbrained or scatterbrained; stupid.
- Her getting a parcel from a hare-brained wench at the coaches in St. John Street; her booty made at the fire, and again at Harwich, all give us excelle1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, The Author's Preface
- Synonyms:
- absent-minded, half-brained, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed
harebrained meaning in Bengali and Kannada
harebrained in Bengali
- বোকাটে, নির্বোধ, অস্থিরচিত্ত, হঠকারী, বোকামিতে ভরা
harebrained in Kannada
- ದುಡುಕುವ, ಮುನ್ನುಗ್ಗುವ, ದುಡುಕು ಬುದ್ಧಿಯ, ಚಪಲ ಚಿತ್ತದ, ತಿಕ್ಕಲಿನ, ಕ್ಷಣಚಿತ್ತ ಕ್ಷಣಪಿತ್ತದ
Synonyms of harebrained
- addlebrained
- addlepated
- airheaded
- bee-brained
- beef-witted
- soft
- beefheaded
- beetle-headed
- birdbrained
- blockheaded
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- Boeotian
- boneheaded
- boofheaded
- braindead
- brainless
- bubbleheaded
- buffle-headed
- bullet-headed
- cerebrally challenged
- childish
- chowderheaded
- chuckleheaded
- crackbrained
- cretinous
- daft
- dense
- dented
- dim-bulb
- dim-headed
- dim-witted
- dim
- doltish
- dopey
- dozy
- drowsy
- dull-headed
- dull-minded
- dull-witted
- dull
- dumber than a box of rocks
Forms of harebrained
| comparative | more harebrained |
|---|---|
| superlative | most harebrained |
| alternative form | harebrain |
| alternative form | hare-brained |
| alternative form | hairbrained |
Origin of harebrained
From hare + brained.
Questions about harebrained
- What does harebrained mean?
- Harebrained means absurd, foolish or stupid.
- What is harebrained in Bengali?
- Harebrained in Bengali is বোকাটে, নির্বোধ, অস্থিরচিত্ত. See Harebrained meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is harebrained?
- Harebrained is an adjective.
Words near harebrained in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: harebrained (page history and authors); harebrained (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); harebrained (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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