Hare-brained

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Harebrained \Hare"brained`\ (h[^a]r"br[=a]nd`), a.
     Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. "A mad hare-brained fellow."
     --North (Plutarch). [Written also {hairbrained}.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  harebrained
       adj : very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind
             the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge
             between two mountains" [syn: {insane}, {mad}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "hare-brained":
     airy, asinine, brainless, crackpot, fanciful, flighty, foolhardy,
     foolish, frivolous, giddy, heedless, improvident, inane, madcap,
     mindless, rash, reckless, scatterbrained, silly, visionary, wild,
     witless
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "harebrained":
     absurd, adventurous, arbitrary, audacious, balmy, bold, brainless,
     capricious, cranky, crazy, crotchety, daredevil, daring,
     death-defying, dizzy, empty-headed, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic,
     featherbrained, featherheaded, fire-eating, flaky, flighty,
     fluttery, foolhardy, forward, freakish, frivolous, gaga, giddy,
     giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, harebrain,
     humorsome, insane, kinky, loony, madbrain, madbrained, madcap,
     maggoty, moody, motiveless, notional, petulant, potty,
     preposterous, presumptuous, quirky, rattlebrained, rattleheaded,
     rattlepated, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, shatterbrained,
     silly, skittish, temperamental, thoughtless, unreasonable,
     unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, wacky, wanton, wayward,
     whimsical, wild, wild-ass, witless