brainish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Neurological; concerning the brain and nervous system.
adj
Brain-like.
Example Sentences
- "And, in this brainish apprehension, kills / The unseen good old man."
- "I had slain a man, Even thy sone, Amphidamas, whom, unwittingly of life I reft In a brainish moment, foolishly, when we quarrelled o'er the dice;"
- "Solicitude for the interests of true womanhood has put the knights errant into such a state of "brainish apprehension," that they hasten to imagine all kinds of terrible catastrophes which could not possibly happen ."
- "For the third, because the worke might in truth be iudged brainish, if nothing but amorous humor were handled therein, I haue inter-wouen matters historicall, which unexplaned, might defraud the mind of much content, as for example, in Queene Margarites Epistle to William de-la-Poole."
- "It is a folly–nothing, a mere thought, A brainish fancy."
- "I see– but fie, thou brainish Muse! what mean These vapourings, and brags of what by thee is seen?"
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Inflected Forms
more brainish (comparative)
most brainish (superlative)