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Adjective harebrained has 1 sense

• harebrained(s = adj.all) insane, mad - very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

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harebrained

absurd, adventurous, arbitrary, audacious, balmy, bold, brainless, capricious, cranky, crazy, crotchety, daredevil, daring, death-defying, dizzy, empty-headed, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, featherbrained, featherheaded, fire-eating, flaky, flighty, fluttery, foolhardy, forward, freakish, frivolous, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, harebrain, humorsome, insane, kinky, loony, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, maggoty, moody, motiveless, notional, petulant, potty, preposterous, presumptuous, quirky, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, shatterbrained, silly, skittish, temperamental, thoughtless, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, wacky, wanton, wayward, whimsical, wild, wild-ass, witless

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Rashness

N rashness, temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion, overconfidence, presumption, audacity, precipitancy, precipitation, impetuosity, levity, foolhardihood, foolhardiness, heedlessness, thoughtlessness, carelessness, desperation, Quixotism, knight-errantry, fire eating, gaming, gambling, blind bargain, leap in the dark, leap of faith, fool's paradise, too many eggs in one basket, desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu, Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus, adventurer, gambler, gamester, dynamitard, boomer, rash, incautious, indiscreet, imprudent, improvident, temerarious, uncalculating, heedless, careless, without ballast, heels over head, head over heels, giddy, wanton, reckless, wild, madcap, desperate, devil-may-care, hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained, headlong, headstrong, breakneck, foolhardy, harebrained, precipitate, impulsive, overconfident, overweening, venturesome, venturous, adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier, janty, jaunty, free and easy, off one's guard, post haste, a corps perdu, hand over head, tete baissee, headforemost, happen what may, come what may, neck or nothing, the devil being in one, non semper temeritas est felix, paucis temeritas est bono multis malo.

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