brained

[ breynd ]

adjective

1. having a particular type of brain (used in combination):

   small-brained dinosaurs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of brained¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; brain, -ed ³

Example Sentences

At least one group of jumping spider species plans out strategic attacks involving elaborate detours to reach a target — the kind of clever hunting behavior typically ascribed to large-brained mammals like actual tigers.

From Science News

The big-brained Erectus soon gave rise to even larger-brained species.

From Singularity Hub 

All human lineages were getting bigger-brained over the last few million years, not just the lineage that led up to us.

From Nautilus

As brains got bigger, babies needed more, and their ever-larger-brained parents had more creativity to fulfill those needs.

From FiveThirtyEight

Stocky, big-brained hominids such as Neandertals needed chest cavities arranged in this way from birth to accommodate lungs large enough to meet their energy needs, the scientists contend October 7 in Science Advances.

From Science News

McConnell can presumably fob this off on his Beltway-brained consultants.

From The Daily Beast

So Murdoch, cold-blooded and lizard-brained, knows he must preserve his own position while somehow ensuring a peaceful succession.

From The Daily Beast

See a timeline of their hare-brained schemes—including sticking credit cards to their foreheads—and assorted misdemeanors.

From The Daily Beast

He’s just finished shooting a remake of Absolutely Fabulous (that hare-brained, alcoholic ‘90s Britcom).

From The Daily Beast

The Republican Party seems to have been brained by a heavy cloud followed by an equally heavy sky-blue shape.

From The Daily Beast

It was no brash idea, no hare-brained impulse concocted in one's cups, perhaps.

From Project Gutenberg

The bishop and his episcopals can not be hair-brained enough to seek to restore old conditions and assail our liberty.

From Project Gutenberg

Did I not hear that hare-brained youngster declare this evening that money was made round that it might roll.

From Project Gutenberg

“He is crack-brained, and calls himself the King,” she murmured.

From Project Gutenberg

The same act which would proclaim their own treachery would deliver into our hands this hare-brained adventurer.

From Project Gutenberg