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Antonyms for hare-brained

Grammar : Adj

Spell : hair-breynd

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛərˌbreɪnd

Definition of hare-brained

Origin : also harebrained, 1550s, from hare-brain "giddy or reckless person" (1540s), probably from hare, on notion of "flighty, skittish."

As in wacky : adj acting crazy
As in zany : adj crazy, funny

Example sentences :

Harris made a hare-brained attempt to rescue her single-handed.
Extract from : « Tonio, Son of the Sierras » by Charles King

He said to himself that he was every bit as thoughtless as their hare-brained guide.
Extract from : « In Quest of Gold » by Alfred St. Johnston

You are serving the King with these hare-brained Gascons, are you not?
Extract from : « Cyrano de Bergerac » by Edmond Rostand

Nothing could restrain the hare-brained and ungoverned crew.
Extract from : « Pioneers Of France In The New World » by Francis Parkman, Jr.

What hare-brained scheme have you got in your mind now, Brent?
Extract from : « Men, Women and Guns » by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

What's the use of anybody's grieving for a little, mad, hare-brained thing like me?
Extract from : « Sharing Her Crime » by May Agnes Fleming

That fellow Fullerton was once described to me by a Jew as 'hare-brained.'
Extract from : « A Dream of the North Sea » by James Runciman

I wonder where the hare-brained savant that writes them can be living?
Extract from : « Off on a Comet » by Jules Verne

Europe has had enough of you with your hare-brained schemes and foolish failures.
Extract from : « The Yellow Crayon » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

They say she is idle and vain and pleasure-loving; they say she is hare-brained and reckless.
Extract from : « The King in Yellow » by Robert W. Chambers

Synonyms for hare-brained

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