Meaning

2 senses

  1. Absurd, foolish or stupid.

    very foolish

  2. Frivolous and silly; featherbrained or scatterbrained; stupid.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Is this another one of your harebrained ideas?

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  2. We realised that our austerity policies were completely harebrained.

    deWir haben eingesehen, dass unser Sparprogramm eine absolute Schnapsidee war.

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  3. I knew I should never have gotten involved with your harebrained scheme.

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Origin

From hare + brained.

From hare + brained.

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Forms

more harebrained, most harebrained
Comparativemore harebrained Lesson
Superlativemost harebrained Lesson

regular

Synonyms

133 synonyms
softA2childishB2daftB2denseB2dimB2dullB1dumbB2foolishB1ignorantB2ridiculousB1sillyA2simpleA2slowA1stupidB1
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hardyhareharemharlequin
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