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Definition of Crackbrained
1. Adjective. Insanely irresponsible. "An idiotic idea"
Definition of Crackbrained
1. a. Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.
Definition of Crackbrained
1. Adjective. Idiotic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crackbrained
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crackbrained
Literary usage of Crackbrained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons Preached at Boyle's Lecture: Remarks Upon a Discourse of Free by Richard Bentley, Isaac Newton (1838)
"... our Leibnitz or your Newton, or any one else dead or living, for his guide in
speculation: they were designing men, or else crackbrained enthusiasts, ..."
2. The Christian Examiner (1838)
"So close a resemblance do we find between the noble and valiant, but crackbrained
Don Quixote, and the religious and learned, but, to speak plainly, ..."
3. The Semantic Development of Words for Mental Aberration in Germanic by Hartie Emil Zabel (1922)
"E. dial, shandy shy, reluctant, wild, romping, boisterous, visionary, empty-headed,
crackbrained, half-crazy, shanny shy, bashful, shame-faced, half-wit, ..."
4. The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales edited by Charles Wilkins, James Harris (1887)
"He wrote rubbish ; he printed other people's rubbish; and he wandered up and down
the world doing crackbrained things, now in Ireland acting as an ..."
5. Sermons Preached at Boyle's Lecture: Remarks Upon a Discourse of Free by Richard Bentley, Isaac Newton (1838)
"... our Leibnitz or your Newton, or any one else dead or living, for his guide in
speculation: they were designing men, or else crackbrained enthusiasts, ..."
6. The Christian Examiner (1838)
"So close a resemblance do we find between the noble and valiant, but crackbrained
Don Quixote, and the religious and learned, but, to speak plainly, ..."
7. The Semantic Development of Words for Mental Aberration in Germanic by Hartie Emil Zabel (1922)
"E. dial, shandy shy, reluctant, wild, romping, boisterous, visionary, empty-headed,
crackbrained, half-crazy, shanny shy, bashful, shame-faced, half-wit, ..."
8. The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales edited by Charles Wilkins, James Harris (1887)
"He wrote rubbish ; he printed other people's rubbish; and he wandered up and down
the world doing crackbrained things, now in Ireland acting as an ..."
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