| 单词 | addle-brained |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaddle-brained addle-brained adj. (a) (of a person) having a supposedly addled or diminished brain; lacking clear or rational thought; muddled; stupid; (b) (of an action, scheme, etc.) motivated or characterized by incorrect or irrational thinking; unsound; ridiculous. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [adjective] redelessOE mopishc1300 tottedc1500 addle1534 muddy?1571 addle1576 foggya1591 foggy-brained1594 addled1599 addle-headed1600 bezzled1604 addle-pated1614 addle-brained1619 buzzle-headeda1644 puzzle-headed1729 puzzle-pated1736 muddle-headed1760 ramble-headeda1761 hulver-headed1785 ramfeezled1786 muddled1790 hoddy-doddya1798 muzzy-headed1798 bother-headed1820 muddle-pated1823 pixilated1848 woolly1864 bungle-headed1865 mixed1880 muddlesome1887 wifty1918 woozy1941 spastic1981 1619 T. Gataker Of Nature & Use Lots xii. 343 They are not such as haue any diuine Art or skill at all with them: but are either superstitious Wisards, or blinde Buzards, or idle-headed, or adle-brained, or arrant Beggars. 1770 T. Bridges Adventures of Bank-note I. xiii. 119 You see how many addle-brained fellows are every day running about the streets. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. iv. v. 100 The addle-brained Oberstein had confessed..the enormous blunder which he had committed. 1991 Independent 5 Jan. 22/1 The film is openly addle-brained:..reducing the Indo-China war to juvenile noise and slapstick. < as lemmas |
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