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braindead

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for braindead.

Editorial note

But I recently tried Fortinet, and the configuration is so braindead stupid, I felt bad for all the times I got annoyed with Cisco.

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Quick take

Alternative form of brain-dead. [(informal, derogatory) An unintelligent person.]

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of braindead gathered in one view.

noun

Alternative form of brain-dead. [(informal, derogatory) An unintelligent person.]

adjective

Alternative form of brain-dead. [(medicine, not comparable) Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for braindead.

noun

Alternative form of brain-dead. [(informal, derogatory) An unintelligent person.]

adjective

Alternative form of brain-dead. [(medicine, not comparable) Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.]

Example sentences

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But I recently tried Fortinet, and the configuration is so braindead stupid, I felt bad for all the times I got annoyed with Cisco.

2

If you're writing one, pretend your audience is a braindead zombie that needs to be spoonfed everything.

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Oh, and such a braindead password policy (like, 6 of them) that everyone has to keep them on postits anyway.

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Unfortunately this sort of braindead legislation seems to be a global trend.

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Incremental compilation and a non-braindead module system.

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The module system _is_ braindead, though.

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> braindead NPM dependency manager Among all dependency managers I've used, npm is by far my favourite so this comment took me a bit by surprise.

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(Type-safe at runtime, that is, via automatically passing a type info argument along with each format argument; C++ is braindead enough that doing the check at compile time is only somewhat possible with C++14 - as far as I can tell, it only works if you define the format outside of a function - and probably fairly slow, since that involves a template instantiation per character in the format.

Quote examples

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I'd also question why the module system is "braindead", of course.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use braindead in a sentence?

But I recently tried Fortinet, and the configuration is so braindead stupid, I felt bad for all the times I got annoyed with Cisco.

What does braindead mean?

Alternative form of brain-dead. [(informal, derogatory) An unintelligent person.]

What part of speech is braindead?

braindead is commonly used as noun, adjective.