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informal (also hair-brained) uk / ˈheə.breɪnd / us / ˈher.breɪnd / Add to word list. (of plans or people) silly or not practical: harebrained scheme That sounds like another of his harebrained schemes! Synonyms. insane. loopy informal. mad (SILLY) UK informal. Note: The spelling harebrained is most common.
hare· brained ˈher-ˈbrānd. Synonyms of harebrained. 1. : foolish sense 1. 2. : absurd, ridiculous. Synonyms. birdbrained. ditzy. ditsy. dizzy. featherbrained. flighty. frivolous. frothy. futile. giddy. goofy. light-headed. light-minded. puerile. scatterbrained. silly. yeasty.
Hairbrained definition: a variant spelling of harebrained. See examples of HAIRBRAINED used in a sentence.
adjective. informal (also hair-brained) us / ˈher.breɪnd / uk / ˈheə.breɪnd / Add to word list. (of plans or people) silly or not practical: harebrained scheme That sounds like another of his harebrained schemes! Synonyms. insane. loopy informal. mad (SILLY) UK informal. Note: The spelling harebrained is most common.
Something that's harebrained is reckless or foolish. Sometimes, harebrained ideas work out just fine — several people have survived trips over Niagara Falls in a barrel, for example. If you have what you think is a great idea, but someone else calls it a harebrained scheme, it means they think you'd be a fool to try it.
May 31, 2013 · Hair Brained: Directed by Billy Kent. With Alex Wolff, Parker Posey, Brendan Fraser, Julia Garner. 14-year-old genius Eli is rejected from Harvard and ends up at Ivy League wannabe Whittman U, where he meets 41-year-old Leo, a gambler who has dropped out of life to enroll in college; Leo teaches Eli every bad habit he knows.
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. [disapproval] This isn't the first hare-brained scheme he's had. Synonyms: foolish, wild, rash, reckless More Synonyms of hare-brained. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
