Definition of lamebrainnext

lamebrain

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adjective

variants or lamebrained
as in stupid
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily he offended a number of people with that insensitive, lamebrain comment

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Recent Examples of lamebrain
Noun
The Futurists, led by Filippo Marinetti, spent a lot of time publishing lamebrain manifestos about the need to sweep away existing society, if necessary by war. Barton Swaim, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022 But there's finally a collection of lamebrains that lack more common sense than the NCAA. Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 23 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamebrain
Noun
  • God help us all if some idiot, some moron, ever put you in charge.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 18 July 2026
  • Mantzoukas was willing to look like a maniac and a moron in equal measure.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 June 2026
Adjective
  • The humor is like laughing about something that was just so stupid, or something that was so traumatic.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • That’s the problem with all of your arguments and stupid comments.
    Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Combined with a brutal noon start time that provided no shade or relief throughout the game, the conditions meant there weren’t many fans brave enough, or quite frankly dumb enough, to endure a heat index of roughly 105 degrees.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • There’s an incident at a gun range where Ned’s fear of looking emasculated requires his army vet girlfriend to fall for his very dumb, very obvious lies.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Complex carbs with fiber slow digestion and sugar absorption, while protein and fat further delay digestion, helping to stabilize blood sugar.
    Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Longer messages mean slower communication, so people who study error-correcting codes devise more elaborate schemes to minimize the redundancy in the transmissions while maximizing the number of errors that can be corrected.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Underpinning this assessment is the fact that disagreements between the two nations have gradually expanded beyond simple tariff disputes.
    , CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • In simple terms, cherry juice targets the muscle inflammation caused by exercise, known as oxidative stress.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

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“Lamebrain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamebrain. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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