Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Headstrong; impetuous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Headstrong; passionate; also, perhaps, unreal; brain-sick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Hot-headed; furious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
hot-headed ;furious
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Carnevale in Ivrea, streets flowing with the brainish and aromatic combination of orange pulp and horse droppings.
kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2003
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She was brainish a 'the time, an' she follow'd her bairnie twa days efter.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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And in all this Princess Márya Alexévna is perfectly right and plays the true prophet, unless these young people who are getting married have another purpose, their one and only one, unknown to Princess Márya Alexévna, and that not a brainish purpose, not one recognized by the intellect, but one that gives life its color and the attainment of which is more moving than any other.
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And in all this PRINCESS MARYA ALEXEVNA is perfectly right and plays the true prophet, unless these young people who are getting married have another purpose, their one and only one, unknown to PRINCESS MARYA ALEXEVNA, and that not a brainish purpose, not one recognized by the intellect, but one that gives life its color and the attainment of which is more moving than any other.
Reminiscences of Tolstoy Tolstoy, Ilya, graf 1914
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And in all this PRINCESS MARYA ALEXEVNA is perfectly right and plays the true prophet, unless these young people who are getting married have another purpose, their one and only one, unknown to PRINCESS MARYA ALEXEVNA, and that not a brainish purpose, not one recognized by the intellect, but one that gives life its color and the attainment of which is more moving than any other.
Reminiscences of Tolstoy Ilia Lvovich Tolstoi 1899
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That's all fine and dandy, but let's face it, birds can be rather, well, bird-brainish.
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And, in this brainish apprehension, kills The unseen good old man.
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[Footnote IV. 1: _Translate: _] Interpret.] [Footnote IV. 2: _In this brainish apprehension_,] Distempered, brainsick mood.] [Footnote IV. 3: _Where the offender's scourge is weigh'd, But never the offence.
Hamlet William Shakespeare 1590
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