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brainwashed

brainwashed

6.9
Someone who has had their beliefs changed by strong, unfair pressure from other people
  • adjective
  • /ˈbreɪnˌwɑʃt/
translation icon : lavado de cerebro
  • It was alarming to see how the cult had brainwashed its members, convincing them to abandon their families.

Like you, you're brainwashed to do these things.

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Examples

  • So let me show you how we, at least in America, got brainwashed by milk.

  • I think we're all just brainwashed by Hollywood and like all the gossip magazines.

  • Like, yeah, brainwashed into it being a certain way.

  • And I thought, Oh my God, this is just a lot of brainwashed people.

  • Yes, our children are being brainwashed with the radical ideology of Fair.

  • Young people were brainwashed and they were pressured.

  • And what we see now, now we're coming out is that people are still psychologically brainwashed into the old thinking.

  • People have been so brainwashed, like Pavlovian dogs chasing the almighty dollar.

  • And so when you, even if you don't know that you've been brainwashed into what's been taught to us in school, you have been.

  • Last week we got this comment saying I love this podcast and you guys but it's weird watching men and how they've been brainwashed their whole life by the media.

Antonyms

62 5.8

Knowing a lot about a situation and thinking fairly about it

Forming your own opinions without following people in power, especially about religion

How Persuaded

brainwashed
6.9
swayable
7.0
unaffected
3 3.9

Surface Forms

brainwashed positive

Morphology

brainwashed = brainwash (transparent) = brain + wash + ed

The adjective is formed by adding '-ed' to the clear verb 'brainwash' (a productive compound of 'brain' + 'wash') and retains the expected meaning.

Etymology

The word brainwashed joins brain and wash and was borrowed from the Chinese phrase xǐnǎo, which means 'wash brain'. So, to be brainwashed is to have your beliefs forced to change by strong pressure or constant messages.