lamebrain

[leym-breyn]

noun

Informal.

1. a dunce; booby; fool.

lamebrain

/ ˈleɪmˌbreɪn /

noun

1. informal,  a stupid or slow-witted person

Other Word Forms

• lamebrained adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of lamebrain¹

First recorded in 1925–30; lame ¹ + brain

Example Sentences

The 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe couldn’t undo a half-century of nonsense thinking and lamebrain rhetoric.

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Trump responded early Tuesday with a post on his Truth Social platform, claiming he was “totally innocent” and calling Smith “a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election.”

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The rest of the cast is a motley lot: luckless tourists, lamebrain teen punks, unfortunate law-enforcement officers and bungling drug dealers.

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I laugh at lamebrain YouTube videos even before pushing the play button.

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That will mean the end of the self-satisfied blowhard whose lamebrain pronouncements, decoded for their ironic intent, have served as some of TV’s shrewdest analysis of current events.

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Related Words

• ass 
• boob 
• buffoon 
• idiot 
• jerk 
• moron 
• nitwit 
• stooge 
• sucker 
• twit