Harebrained (Adjective)
Meaning
Very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The entrepreneur's harebrained plan to launch a restaurant on the moon was met with skepticism by investors.
- Her harebrained idea to travel the world on a unicycle was not well thought out.
- The movie plot was so harebrained that even the most die-hard fans had trouble following it.
- The billionaire's harebrained scheme to build a private island in the middle of the ocean was doomed from the start.
- The politician's harebrained proposal to eliminate all taxes was widely ridiculed by economists.