What is another word for birdbrained?
817 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ bˈɜːdbɹe͡ɪnd], [ bˈɜːdbɹeɪnd], [ b_ˈɜː_d_b_ɹ_eɪ_n_d]
The term "birdbrained" often has a negative connotation and is used to describe someone who is scatterbrained, foolish or lacking in intelligence. There are several synonyms that can be used instead of "birdbrained" to describe someone who is not particularly clever or focused. Some options include "scatterbrained," "airheaded," "empty-headed," "thoughtless," "heedless," "vacuous," "foolish," "witless," "brain-dead," and "dumb." While these terms may not be flattering, they can be useful if you need to describe someone who is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Synonyms for Birdbrained:
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adj.
• ignorant- Unconversant ,
- apprenticed ,
- blind to ,
- cretinous ,
- unintellectual ,
- unknowledgeable ,
- unlettered ,
- benighted ,
- green ,
- illiterate ,
- in the dark ,
- inexperienced ,
- innocent ,
- insensible ,
- misinformed ,
- naive ,
- oblivious ,
- shallower ,
- unconscious ,
- uncultivated ,
- uncultured ,
- uneducated ,
- unenlightened ,
- uninformed ,
- uninitiated ,
- unlearned ,
- unmindful ,
- unread ,
- unschooled ,
- unsuspecting ,
- untaught ,
- untrained ,
- unwitting .
- Punchy ,
- Reeling ,
- bird-brained ,
- delirious ,
- faint ,
- fickle ,
- flippant ,
- hazy ,
- rocky ,
- swimming ,
- swimmy ,
- tired ,
- trifling ,
- vertiginous ,
- whirling ,
- woozy .
- cockamamy ,
- halfwitted ,
- dotty ,
- feebleminded ,
- ill-advised ,
- kooky ,
- loony ,
- nonsensical ,
- nutty ,
- ridiculous ,
- unwise ,
- wacky ,
- zany .
- capricious ,
- changeable ,
- dingbat ,
- effervescent ,
- impetuous ,
- impulsive ,
- inconstant ,
- lightheaded ,
- lively ,
- mercurial ,
- thoughtless ,
- twit ,
- unbalanced ,
- unstable ,
- unsteady ,
- whimsical ,
- wild .
- Feeble-minded ,
- Sophomoric ,
- backward ,
- batty ,
- blockheaded ,
- crazy ,
- imbecilic ,
- impractical ,
- indiscreet ,
- short-sighted ,
- underdeveloped ,
- unformed .
Other synonyms:
- featherbrained ,
- gaga .
- harebrained .
- frothy ,
- lighthearted .
- giddy .
- dizzy .
Other relevant words:
- absent ,
- absentminded ,
- abstemious ,
- abstracted ,
- adolescent ,
- affected ,
- airy ,
- alert ,
- alight ,
- analphabetic ,
- angry ,
- annul ,
- anserine ,
- around the bend ,
- arrhythmic ,
- articled ,
- artless ,
- avoid ,
- back ,
- backwards ,
- bad ,
- bait ,
- balmy ,
- banal ,
- barbarian ,
- barbaric ,
- bare ,
- barmy ,
- barren ,
- baseless ,
- bathetic ,
- bats ,
- behind ,
- benumb ,
- black ,
- blank shell ,
- bleak ,
- bleary ,
- blind ,
- blithe ,
- blithesome ,
- blockhead ,
- blunt ,
- blur ,
- blurred ,
- blurry ,
- bonkers ,
- boob ,
- booby ,
- boorish ,
- bootless ,
- boring ,
- bouldered ,
- bouldery ,
- bouncy ,
- bound ,
- bozo ,
- brainish ,
- brainsick ,
- brightness ,
- brightness level ,
- brisk ,
- brumous ,
- bubbling ,
- bubbly ,
- buddy-buddy ,
- buffoonish ,
- buggy ,
- bumpy ,
- calorie-free ,
- carefree ,
- casual ,
- cat valium ,
- changeful ,
- changeling ,
- chatoyant ,
- childlike ,
- choppy ,
- chummy ,
- clean ,
- clean-handed ,
- clear ,
- cloddish ,
- clownish ,
- clownlike ,
- cockamamie ,
- cockeyed ,
- cold ,
- cold-blooded ,
- common ,
- commonplace ,
- commons ,
- compact ,
- confused ,
- conk ,
- crackbrained ,
- cracked ,
- crackers ,
- cretin ,
- cuckoo ,
- cursory ,
- cushy ,
- dalliance ,
- damp ,
- dampen ,
- daredevil ,
- dark ,
- dark-green ,
- dawdling ,
- dazed ,
- dead ,
- deadening ,
- decelerate ,
- decrepit ,
- deep ,
- delicate ,
- demented ,
- derisory ,
- destitute ,
- developing ,
- developmentally challenged ,
- devil-may-care ,
- devoid ,
- dewy-eyed ,
- diffuse ,
- diffused ,
- dimmed ,
- ding ,
- dip ,
- disconnected ,
- disjointed ,
- dismount ,
- disordered ,
- disturbed ,
- doddering ,
- doddery ,
- dolt ,
- dong ,
- dope ,
- dopy ,
- dorky ,
- downlike ,
- downy ,
- drippy ,
- driving ,
- dullard ,
- dumbass ,
- dumdum bullet ,
- dummy up ,
- dunce ,
- dunderhead ,
- easy ,
- easygoing ,
- effervescing ,
- elementary ,
- emptiness ,
- empty ,
- erratic ,
- especial ,
- evacuate ,
- exceeding ,
- excited ,
- explosive ,
- faint-hearted ,
- fainthearted ,
- fall ,
- fallible ,
- fantastic ,
- farcical ,
- fathead ,
- fatheaded ,
- faulty ,
- feeble ,
- fey ,
- fire ,
- fire up ,
- flabby ,
- flaccid ,
- fleeceable ,
- flossy ,
- fluid ,
- flyaway ,
- foaming ,
- foamy ,
- foggy ,
- frail ,
- frantic ,
- freakish ,
- free ,
- freewheeling ,
- fruitless ,
- fruity ,
- fuckhead ,
- furious ,
- fuzzy ,
- garbled ,
- gaumless ,
- gentle ,
- get down ,
- get off ,
- godforsaken ,
- goof ,
- goofball ,
- goose ,
- gooselike ,
- goosey ,
- goosy ,
- green river ,
- greenish ,
- greenness ,
- greens ,
- groundless ,
- guiltless ,
- gullible ,
- gyration ,
- hackneyed ,
- half-wit ,
- hallucinating ,
- hammerhead ,
- happy-go-lucky ,
- harum-scarum ,
- haywire ,
- hazardous ,
- head-in-the-clouds ,
- headless ,
- heady ,
- heavy ,
- heavyset ,
- ho-hum ,
- hokey ,
- hollow ,
- honey oil ,
- hothead ,
- hotheaded ,
- huffy ,
- idiot ,
- idle ,
- ignite ,
- igniter ,
- ignitor ,
- illiterate person ,
- illume ,
- illuminate ,
- illumination ,
- illumine ,
- imbalanced ,
- immature ,
- impeccant ,
- impenetrable ,
- imperfect ,
- indentured ,
- indiscernible ,
- indulgent ,
- ineffectual ,
- inexpedient ,
- inexperienced person ,
- inexperient ,
- infirm ,
- ingenuous ,
- inhuman ,
- innate ,
- inner light ,
- innocuous ,
- insentient ,
- invalidate ,
- iridescent ,
- irrational number ,
- jackass ,
- jejune ,
- jerk ,
- jerked meat ,
- jerking ,
- jet ,
- jolting ,
- jolty ,
- jumpy ,
- juvenile ,
- kitschy ,
- knackered ,
- knucklehead ,
- knuckleheaded ,
- kookie ,
- lacuna ,
- laughable ,
- leaden ,
- leafy vegetable ,
- lenient ,
- light source ,
- light up ,
- light within ,
- light-colored ,
- light-green ,
- lighter ,
- lighting ,
- lightly ,
- lightness ,
- lightsome ,
- liquid ,
- lite ,
- live ,
- loco ,
- loggerhead ,
- loggerheaded ,
- looney ,
- loopy ,
- loose ,
- loutish ,
- low-cal ,
- lowbrow ,
- lowbrowed ,
- luminance ,
- luminosity ,
- luminousness ,
- lunkhead ,
- madman ,
- maniac ,
- maudlin ,
- mawkish ,
- meaningless ,
- mentally ill ,
- mentally retarded ,
- mere ,
- merry ,
- midst ,
- mild ,
- misguided ,
- misty ,
- moonstruck ,
- moron ,
- moved ,
- muffle ,
- muffled ,
- mushy ,
- mutable ,
- mute ,
- muted ,
- muttonhead ,
- muzzy ,
- naiant ,
- naif ,
- natural state ,
- neandertal ,
- neanderthal ,
- negative ,
- neglectful ,
- negligible ,
- nervous ,
- nighted ,
- nitwitted ,
- nonreader ,
- nonsense ,
- nothingness ,
- null ,
- nullify ,
- nullity ,
- numb ,
- numskull ,
- nutcase ,
- nutlike ,
- nuts ,
- old-hat ,
- olympian ,
- otiose ,
- out of it ,
- pall ,
- paltry ,
- park ,
- particular ,
- pass out ,
- passing ,
- pathetic ,
- perch ,
- perfunctory ,
- piano ,
- pillock ,
- pinheaded ,
- pointless ,
- poor fish ,
- power ,
- precarious ,
- preposterous ,
- primitive ,
- prodigious ,
- promiscuous ,
- pudden-head ,
- pudding head ,
- punch-drunk ,
- purblind ,
- purposeless ,
- putting green ,
- putting surface ,
- quash ,
- quicksilver ,
- racy ,
- rag ,
- raging ,
- rally ,
- rampantly ,
- rash ,
- rattling ,
- raving mad ,
- razz ,
- rearward ,
- rearwards ,
- reasonless ,
- reckless ,
- regardless ,
- resilient ,
- retard ,
- rickety ,
- ride ,
- risky ,
- rough ,
- round the bend ,
- round-eyed ,
- sapless ,
- savage ,
- scant ,
- scattered ,
- schmaltzy ,
- schmalzy ,
- scintillating ,
- screwball ,
- senile ,
- sentimental ,
- shadowy ,
- shithead ,
- shitless ,
- shoal ,
- shopworn ,
- short ,
- shot ,
- sick ,
- silent ,
- silent person ,
- simpleton ,
- sinless ,
- skittish ,
- slack ,
- slacken ,
- sleeveless ,
- slow down ,
- slow up ,
- slowly ,
- sluggish ,
- slur ,
- slurred ,
- slushy ,
- sluttish ,
- snappy ,
- soft-witted ,
- softened ,
- sonant ,
- soppy ,
- sore ,
- soupy ,
- space ,
- spanking ,
- spark ,
- sparkle ,
- sparkling ,
- sparkly ,
- special ,
- speechless ,
- spooky ,
- springy ,
- spumy ,
- state of nature ,
- stirred ,
- stock ,
- stocky ,
- stony ,
- stunned ,
- stupefied ,
- stupid person ,
- subdued ,
- subtraction ,
- super acid ,
- superfluous ,
- surpassing ,
- swashbuckler ,
- swim ,
- swinish ,
- swoon ,
- swooning ,
- syncope ,
- tantalise ,
- tantalize ,
- tardily ,
- taunt ,
- taunting ,
- tearaway ,
- tease ,
- tedious ,
- tempestuous ,
- the absurd ,
- thick-skulled ,
- thickly ,
- thickset ,
- threadbare ,
- thudding ,
- timeworn ,
- timid ,
- tiresome ,
- tone down ,
- tripping ,
- trite ,
- trivial ,
- twat ,
- twerp ,
- twinkle ,
- twirp ,
- unaccented ,
- unacquainted ,
- unadvised ,
- unaffected ,
- unavailing ,
- unbelieving ,
- uncaring ,
- uncertain ,
- uncivilised ,
- uncivilized ,
- unclouded ,
- uncomplicated ,
- unconditioned ,
- unconnected ,
- unconscious mind ,
- underdone ,
- undetectable ,
- unfirm ,
- unfounded ,
- unhinged ,
- unhorse ,
- uninitiate ,
- unintelligible ,
- unintentional ,
- unknowing ,
- unlogical ,
- unplanned ,
- unproblematic ,
- unprompted ,
- unrestrained ,
- unretentive ,
- unripe ,
- unripened ,
- unsettled ,
- unsound ,
- unsubdivided ,
- unsuspicious ,
- untamed ,
- unthinking ,
- untutored ,
- unwarranted ,
- utter ,
- vacancy ,
- vacuum ,
- vague ,
- vain ,
- violent ,
- viridity ,
- visible light ,
- visible radiation ,
- visionary ,
- vital ,
- vitiate ,
- voiced ,
- wakeful ,
- wanton ,
- washy ,
- waste ,
- wasted ,
- watery ,
- weakly ,
- wearisome ,
- weirdo ,
- well-worn ,
- whacky ,
- white ,
- wide-eyed ,
- wilderness ,
- windy ,
- wispy ,
- wooden-headed ,
- yeastlike ,
- zestful ,
- zesty ,
- zippy .
- Chuckleheaded ,
- Fiendly ,
- Weak-minded ,
- ability ,
- airheaded ,
- babyish ,
- bonehead ,
- boneheaded ,
- brain dead ,
- brainless ,
- bubbleheaded ,
- dense ,
- dim ,
- dim-witted ,
- ditzy ,
- doltish ,
- dopey ,
- dull ,
- dumb ,
- dunderheaded ,
- fatuous ,
- fluffy ,
- foolish ,
- futile ,
- goofy ,
- gormless ,
- half-baked ,
- half-witted ,
- idiotic ,
- ignorant ,
- lamebrain ,
- light-headed ,
- light-minded ,
- lunkheaded ,
- mindless ,
- nescient ,
- oafish ,
- obtuse ,
- opaque ,
- puerile ,
- senseless ,
- shallow ,
- silly ,
- simple ,
- slow ,
- slow-witted ,
- soft ,
- softheaded ,
- superficial ,
- thick ,
- thick-witted ,
- thickheaded ,
- uninstructed ,
- unintelligent ,
- unprofound ,
- unscholarly ,
- unsmart ,
- vacuous ,
- volatile ,
- witless ,
- yeasty .
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How to use "Birdbrained" in context?
There is no one definitive definition of the word "birdbrained", but the term typically relates to people who are overly-enthusiastic or overenthusiastic in their actions or decisions. One dictionary definition states that someone with a "quick, darting, and incautious mind" is someone who exhibits this characteristic.
In some cases, people might refer to someone as being birdbrained if they make careless or poorly thought-out decisions. For instance, if a person spends too much time worrying about the small details of a project, they might be seen as being birdbrained.
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