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brainsick

adjective
brain·​sick | \ ˈbrān-ˌsik How to pronounce brainsick (audio) \

Definition of brainsick

1 : mentally disordered Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men, / When for so slight and frivolous a cause / Such factious emulations shall arise!— William Shakespeare
2 : arising from mental disorder a brainsick frenzy
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Other Words from brainsick

brainsickly adverb

Synonyms & Antonyms for brainsick

Synonyms

balmy, barmy [chiefly British], bats, batty, bedlam, bonkers, bughouse [slang], certifiable, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crackpot, cranky [dialect], crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, fruity [slang], gaga, haywire, insane, kooky (also kookie), loco [slang], loony (also looney), loony tunes (or looney tunes), lunatic, mad, maniacal (also maniac), mental, meshuga (or meshugge), moonstruck, non compos mentis, nuts, nutty, psycho, psychotic, scatty [chiefly British], screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacko (also whacko), wacky (also whacky), wud [chiefly Scottish]

Antonyms

balanced, compos mentis, sane, sound, uncrazy

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Examples of brainsick in a Sentence

today he is regarded as a brainsick genius who produced some of the greatest paintings in the history of art

First Known Use of brainsick

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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