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The meaning of HAREBRAINED is foolish. How to use harebrained in a sentence.
HAREBRAINED definition: 1. (of plans or people) silly or not practical: 2. (of plans or people) silly or not practical…. Learn more.
Hairbrained definition: a variant spelling of harebrained. See examples of HAIRBRAINED used in a sentence.
hairbrained in American English. (ˈhɛərˌbreind) adjective. harebrained. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
You use harebrained to describe a scheme or theory which you consider to be very foolish and which you think is unlikely to be successful or true. [disapproval] This isn't the first harebrained scheme he's had. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency.
Something that's harebrained is reckless or foolish. Sometimes, harebrained ideas work out just fine — several people have survived trips over Niagara Falls in a barrel, for example. If you have what you think is a great idea, but someone else calls it a harebrained scheme, it means they think you'd be a fool to try it.
From Time. It’s how we got from a guy carping about supposed voter fraud in an election he won, in 2016, to a guy spurring a harebrained effort to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost. From Washington Post.
