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softheaded

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soft·head·ed  (sôfthdd, sft-)
adj.
Lacking judgment, realism, or firmness.
softheaded·ly adv.
softheaded·ness n.
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Adj.1.softheaded - foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"
half-baked, screwball, crazy
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
impractical - not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution"
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