flea-brained
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9.8
- adjective
- /ˈfliːəˌbreɪnd/
- Offensive
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- His flea-brained ideas about saving money by buying everything at discount stores made no sense.
Examples
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She came up with another flea-brained scheme to get rich overnight.
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Calling that plan flea-brained is putting it mildly, if you ask me.
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His flea-brained suggestions at the meeting left everyone confused.
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That was a flea-brained idea to skip the meeting!
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I can't believe you thought that was a good plan; it was so flea-brained.
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She always comes up with flea-brained schemes that sound funny but never work out.
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Everyone laughed at his flea-brained suggestion to wear clown suits to the business meeting.
Synonyms
138
8.1
Not smart or quick to understand
24
3.5
Very stupid and not using common sense
8
8.0
Very stupid and not thinking clearly
5
8.2
Silly and a little forgetful in a friendly way
3
6.3
Silly, not very intelligent and not serious
1
7.3
Very stupid and showing little thought
1
5.0
Being silly and not serious in behavior
1
5.6
Not serious or sensible and often acting silly
1
8.2
Very silly and not very smart
1
7.9
Not thinking carefully and often acting silly
1
8.8
Not very smart or sensible
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7.9
Being very foolish and showing poor judgment
Not serious and likely to make bad choices
Too silly and not careful about important things
Having confused, unclear thoughts that do not make sense
Showing little intelligence and only simple ideas
Being very foolish and clumsy in how someone thinks or acts
Very foolish and acting without thinking
Very foolish and often making bad choices
Very foolish and slow to understand things
Silly and confused in the way someone thinks
Antonyms
How Foolish
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flea-brained comes from the image of a flea, a very small, jumpy insect, plus brain, so it suggests a 'small' or 'jumpy' mind. That's why flea-brained means having silly ideas or not being serious.