harebrained in English

adjective

1

rash; ill-judged.

a harebrained scheme

synonyms: ill-judged, rash, foolish, foolhardy, reckless, madcap, wild, silly, stupid, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, asinine, imprudent, impracticable, unworkable, unrealistic, unconsidered, half-baked, ill-thought-out, ill-advised, ill-conceived, crackpot, cockeyed, crazy, daft, foolish, silly, idiotic, unintelligent, empty-headed, scatterbrained, featherbrained, birdbrained, pea-brained, brainless, giddy, dippy, dizzy, flaky, dopey, dotty, airheaded

adjective

ill-judged, rash, foolish, foolhardy, reckless, madcap, wild, silly, stupid, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, asinine, imprudent, impracticable, unworkable, unrealistic, unconsidered, half-baked, ill-thought-out, ill-advised, ill-conceived, crackpot, cockeyed, crazy, daft
foolish, silly, idiotic, unintelligent, empty-headed, scatterbrained, featherbrained, birdbrained, pea-brained, brainless, giddy, dippy, dizzy, flaky, dopey, dotty, airheaded
insane, mad

Use "harebrained" in a sentence

1. 6 It'seemed like a foolish, harebrained idea.

2. They've devised some Crackbrained [= harebrained, crazy] scheme.

3. Learning to be a bunch of harebrained half-wits!

4. 7 The first use of harebrained dates to 15

5. HAirbrained definition: → harebrained Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

6. 5 I would miss my loving, erratic, harebrained mother.

7. 1 That sounds like another of his harebrained schemes!

8. 3 Jumping into the icy water was a harebrained idea.

9. 4 Jack's harebrained scheme for raising money is not practicable.

10. 12 Looking back, I laugh at the harebrained folly of my scheme.

11. 13 He could be judged to be a harebrained person by his writing.

12. 11 I would miss my loving, erratic, harebrained mother. And her new husband.

13. 8 You can make money but not through harebrained schemes or gambling.

14. 18 Nobody had any faith in it. It seemed like a foolish, harebrained idea.

15. 15 How could I leave my loving, erratic, harebrained mother to fend for herself?

16. 10 Those harebrained people are not in the frame of mood to listen to rain.

17. The movie follows the hareBrained antics of a pair of stoners who seem incapable of growing up a hareBrained idea to go for a hike in an area where grizzly bear attacks had recently been reported

18. 17 I would miss Phoenix. I'd miss the heat. I would miss my loving, erratic, harebrained mother.

19. 9 How could I leave my loving, erratic,[www.Sentencedict.com] harebrained mother to fend for her herself?

20. 21 No matter how strong the evidence supporting it, conservation was viewed as a harebrained fantasy of fuzzy-headed intellectuals.

21. 2 Concocting any half-truth that suited some harebrained plan dreamed up by the spooks in Century House.

22. 19 Naturally, throughout the ages people have come up with all kinds of harebrained schemes to avoid that dreaded hangover.

23. What does hAirbrained mean? The definition of hAirbrained, another spelling for harebrained, is silly, ill-considered or unlikely to be effective.

24. 16 While hairbrained continues to be used, it should be avoided in favor of harebrained which has been established as the correct spelling.

25. Which is right, 'hAirbrained' or 'harebrained'? Q From Alison: I was reading a Lewis Lapham article in which he used the term hAirbrained.I’d always assumed it was harebrained.Which is it, and how did it come about? A It would be easy to say the right answer is harebrained, because that’s the first form recorded and the reference is pretty clearly to the apparently stupidly senseless

26. 14 The great reward attracted a deluge of harebrained schemes. Hence, the Board of Longitude, the committee appointed to review promising ideas, held no meetings for more than 20 years.

27. 20 I suspect that one day they will say that the EU's unforgivable crime was to take their idealism and hope and throw them away for the sake of a harebrained currency experiment.