Meaning of brain-dead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.
   not-comparable
2. Having no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy.
   colloquial, derogatory

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Examples

“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.”

“"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.”

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