brainsick

[ breyn-sik ]
/ ˈbreɪnˌsɪk /
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adjective

insane; crazy; mad.

Origin of brainsick

before 1000; Middle English brain-seke, Old English brægensēoc. See brain, sick1

OTHER WORDS FROM brainsick

brain·sick·ly, adverb brain·sick·ness, noun

Words nearby brainsick

brainiac, brainish, brainless, brainpan, brainpower, brainsick, brainstem, brainstem evoked response audiometry, brainstorm, brainstorming, brainteaser

Words related to brainsick

batty, bonkers, cracked, crackers, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, moonstruck, nuts, nutty, psychotic, touched

Example sentences from the Web for brainsick

  • Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much if the man be not brainsick.

    Past and Present |Thomas Carlyle

  • To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.

    The Book of Susan |Lee Wilson Dodd

  • And this man, at once unprincipled and brainsick, had in his keeping the understanding and the conscience of the unhappy Monmouth.

    The History of England from the Accession of James II. |Thomas Babington Macaulay

British Dictionary definitions for brainsick

brainsick
/ (ˈbreɪnˌsɪk) /

adjective

relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad

Derived forms of brainsick

brainsickly, adverb brainsickness, noun