Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or induced by a mental disorder.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Disordered in the understanding; fantastic; crotchety; crazed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

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  • adjective Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective affected with madness or insanity

Etymologies

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brain +‎ sick

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Examples

  • With neither brainsick Trooper Qeengat nor the dead female able to contradict his story, he could be very persuasive.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • A brainsick fool who would make such an offer could perhaps be edged upward yet again.

    Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986

  • And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

  • "For why art thou become so distraught and brainsick, that thou wilt choose to tend the flock of another, and be counted among the servants of monsters, sooner than encourage our marriage-troth with fitting and equal consent?"

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • Tecmessa's heart, even the Chorus sadly admitting that death is the best for a brainsick man, born of the highest blood, no longer true to his character.

    Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

  • I hope so, for I would fain think some sunny thought of the poor brainsick folk.

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

  • It was not altogether I who made of you a brainsick beast.

    The Jewel Merchants A Comedy in One Act James Branch Cabell 1918

  • For in that case he is guilty of no crime against you; it is I that am mad and brainsick to accuse him now.

    The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

  • “And wash this filthy witness from your hand,” while he, brainsick, rehearses past fears and shows himself the sensitive poet-dreamer inclined to piety: here is the incredible scene:

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • "And wash this filthy witness from your hand," while he, brainsick, rehearses past fears and shows himself the sensitive poet-dreamer inclined to piety: here is the incredible scene:

    The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

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  • Buffy: I'm brainsick. I can't have a relationship with him.

    Willow: Not during the day, but...you could ask him for coffee some night. It's the non-relationship drink of choice. It's not a date, it's a caffeinated beverage. Okay, sure, it's hot and bitter, like a relationship that way, but... - "Reptile Boy"

    September 2, 2007