- hare-brained
- hare-brained also harebrained, 1550s, from hare-brain "giddy or reckless person" (1540s), probably from HARE (Cf. hare), on notion of "flighty, skittish."
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hare-brained
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hare-brained — adj a hare brained plan or idea is very silly or unlikely to succeed ▪ his latest hare brained scheme … Dictionary of contemporary English
hare-brained — meaning ‘rash, wild’, is spelt hare , not hair … Modern English usage
hare-brained — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ rash; ill judged … English terms dictionary
hare|brained — «HAIR BRAYND», adjective. giddy, heedless, or reckless: »a harebrained scheme … Useful english dictionary
hare-brained — also harebrained ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) You use hare brained to describe a scheme or theory which you consider to be very foolish and which you think is unlikely to be successful or true. This isn t the first hare brained scheme he s … English dictionary
hare-brained — adjective 1) a hare brained scheme Syn: ill judged, rash, foolish, foolhardy, reckless, madcap, wild, silly, stupid, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, asinine, imprudent, impracticable, unworkable, unrealistic … Thesaurus of popular words
hare-brained — adjective thoughtless or inconsiderate And so, putting her back on the shelf, I turned to the other great lady, The Duchess whom Lamb loved, hare brained, fantastical Margaret of Newcastle, her elder, but her contemporary … Wiktionary
hare-brained — adj. Hare brained is used with these nouns: ↑scheme … Collocations dictionary
hare-brained — adj Stupid or foolish. Whose hare brained idea was it to spike granny s lemonade? 1560s … Historical dictionary of American slang
hare-brained — UK [ˈheə(r)ˌbreɪnd] / US [ˈherˌbreɪnd] adjective silly, or very unlikely to succeed I ve had enough of your hare brained schemes! … English dictionary
