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brain-damaged

brain-dam·age
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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [breyn dam-ij]
    • /breɪn ˈdæm ɪdʒ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [breyn dam-ij]
    • /breɪn ˈdæm ɪdʒ/

Definitions of brain-damaged word

  • adjective brain-damaged Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage. 3
  • adjective brain-damaged suffering from brain damage 3
  • noun Technical meaning of brain-damaged 1. [generalisation of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better. Calling something brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure to work is due to poor design rather than some accident. "Only six monocase characters per file name? Now *that's* brain-damaged!" 2. [especially in the Mac world] May refer to free demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in some way so as not to compete with the commercial product it is intended to sell. Synonym crippleware. 1

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brain-damaged popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 7% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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