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Harebrained vs Piddling - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between harebrained and piddling

is that harebrained is absurd, foolish or stupid while piddling is insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.

As a verb piddling is

present participle of lang=en.

harebrained

English

Alternative forms

* hare-brained * hairbrained

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of an idea or plan etc) absurd, foolish or stupid
  • (of a person) frivolous and silly; featherbrained or scatterbrained

    • piddling

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
    • After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
    The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. — Milton.

    Verb

    (head)