Brainsick meaning

Adjective: brainsick

Pronunciation: (‘breyn,sik)

Brainsick meaning:

• Affected with madness or insanity

Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged

Quotations:

1. William Shakespeare – Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men when for so slight and frivolous a cause such factious emulations shall arise!

Sample sentences:

1. Who was it that thus cried? why? worthy thane, you do unbend your noble strength to think so brainsickly of things. Go get some water and wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there. Go carry them and smear the sleepy grooms with blood.
2. His soul which he did not believe in, and which you do not believe in returned Lucio regarding me fixedly. Why do you now seem to tremble at a mere sentimental idea. If fantastic notions such as God, the Soul, and the Devil were real facts, there would perhaps be cause for trembling, but being only the brainsick imaginations of superstitious mankind, there is nothing in them to awaken the slightest anxiety or fear.