brain-dead
/ˈbɹeɪnˌdɛd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.75 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "An employee of the mayor's office was declared brain-dead on Sunday morning after she and another woman were struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, the authorities said."
- ""AI has been brain-dead since the 1970s," said AI guru Marvin Minsky in a recent speech at Boston University. Minsky co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959 with John McCarthy."
- ""What makes you different from all the other brain-deads that come through here?""
Etymology
From brain + dead. Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical context of the Sixties counterculture and life extension technology of the late twentieth century.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more brain-dead (comparative)
most brain-dead (superlative)
brain dead (alternative)
braindead (alternative)
brain-deads (plural)