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Antonyms for have on the brain
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : breyn |
Phonetic Transcription : breɪn |
Definition of have on the brain
Origin :- Old English brægen "brain," from Proto-Germanic *bragnam (cf. Middle Low German bregen, Old Frisian and Dutch brein), from PIE root *mregh-m(n)o- "skull, brain" (cf. Greek brekhmos "front part of the skull, top of the head"). But Liberman writes that brain "has no established cognates outside West Germanic ..." and is not connected to the Greek word. More probably, he writes, its etymon is PIE *bhragno "something broken."
- The custom of using the plural to refer to the substance (literal or figurative), as opposed to the organ, dates from 16c. Figurative sense of "intellectual power" is from late 14c.; meaning "a clever person" is first recorded 1914. Brain teaser is from 1923. Brain stem first recorded 1879, from German. Brain drain is attested from 1963. An Old English word for "head" was brægnloca, which might be translated as "brain locker." In Middle English, brainsick (Old English brægenseoc) meant "mad, addled."
- As in obsessed : adj consumed, driven about belief, desire
- As in preoccupied : adj busy; mentally caught up in something
- As in compulsion : noun drive, obligation
Synonyms for have on the brain
- absent
- absent-minded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- asleep
- bedeviled
- bemused
- beset
- bewitched
- bugged
- captivated
- coercion
- constraint
- controlled
- daydreaming
- deep
- demand
- distracted
- distrait
- dogged
- dominated
- drive
- driving
- duress
- duty
- eat sleep and breathe
- engaged
- engrossed
- engrossment
- exigency
- faraway
- fascinated
- fiendish
- fixated
- force
- forgetful
- gripped
- hang-up
- harassed
- haunted
- have on the brain
- heedless
- held
- hooked
- hung up
- hung up on
- immersed
- immersed in
- inconscient
- infatuated
- intent
- into
- lost
- lost in thought
- monkey
- mooning
- moony
- necessity
- need
- oblivious
- obsessed
- obsession
- overpowered
- plagued
- possessed
- preoccupation
- preoccupied
- prepossessed
- prepossession
- pressure
- rapt
- really into
- removed
- seized
- spellbound
- spread out
- taken over
- taken up
- tied up
- tiger by the tail
- tormented
- troubled
- turned on
- unaware
- up to here in
- urge
- urgency
- woolgathering
- wound up with
- wrapped up in
- wrapped-up
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