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brain·ish

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway(a), brainishadjective

    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

    "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Brainishadjective

    Hotheaded; furious; as, cerebrosus in Latin.

    Etymology: from brain.

    In his lawless fit,
    Behind the arras hearing something stir,
    He whips his rapier out, and cries, a rat!
    And, in his brainish apprehension, kills
    The unseen good old man. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Brainishadjective

    hot-headed; furious

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of brainish in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of brainish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8


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