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View synonyms for brainless

brainless

[ breyn-lis ]

adjective

  1. mentally weak; foolish; witless; stupid.


brainless

/ ˈbreɪnlɪs /

adjective

  1. stupid or foolish


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Derived Forms

  • ˈbrainlessness, noun
  • ˈbrainlessly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • brainless·ly adverb
  • brainless·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of brainless1

First recorded in 1400–50, brainless is from the late Middle English word braynles. See brain, -less

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Example Sentences

Don't fancy that a man who has made millions—made it, understand—is brainless, and not well worth knowing.

He is utterly insignificant, rebuked, and humiliated,--even as a brainless beauty finds herself de trop in a circle of wits.

Especially he had despised the young men as brainless cowards in regard to their views of women and conduct toward them.

I mean that the intellectual, the clever, invariably choose the insipid brainless girl.

I am fit only to be the wife of an idle brainless man, with money and a title,' she said, in extreme self-contempt.

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