brain-dead

comparative more brain-dead · superlative most brain-dead · alternative brain dead · alternative braindead

1. not comparablemedicineHaving an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.

   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.

   2010 February 22, Michael S. Schmidt, Karen Zraick, “Hit and Run in Brooklyn Leaves One Brain-Dead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

2. colloquialderogatoryHaving no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy.

   "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.

   2003 May 13, Mark Baard, quoting Marvin Minsky, “AI Founder Blasts Modern Research”, in Wired, →ISSN

plural brain-deads · alternative brain dead · alternative braindead

1. derogatoryinformalAn unintelligent person.

   "What makes you different from all the other brain-deads that come through here?"

   2015 October 6, Sarah J. Schmitt, It's a Wonderful Death, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN