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harebrained

harebrained adjective: absurd, foolish or stupid.

Adjective

harebrained (comparative more harebrained, superlative most harebrained)

  1. 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
  2. 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

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

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Forms of harebrained

comparativemore harebrained
superlativemost harebrained
alternative formharebrain
alternative formhare-brained
alternative formhairbrained

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

  1. hare-wallaby
  2. Hareb
  3. harebell
  4. harebells
  5. harebrain
  6. harebrained
  7. harebrains
  8. hared
  9. Haredi
  10. Haredi Judaism
  11. Haredim

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