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Brainless vs Contemptible - What's the difference?

brainless | contemptible | Related terms |

Brainless is a related term of contemptible.


As adjectives the difference between brainless and contemptible

is that brainless is (lb) having no brain while contemptible is deserving contempt.

brainless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (lb) Having no brain.
  • (lb) Unintelligent, with little common sense.
  • *
  • *:"I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,!"

    • contemptible

    English

    Alternative forms

    * contemptable

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • deserving contempt
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=between 1812 and 1814 , author= , title= , chapter=1 , passage=Miss Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible : Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield...}}

    Synonyms

    * despicable