mindless
Americanadjective
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without intelligence; senseless.
a mindless creature.
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unmindful or heedless.
mindless of all dangers.
adjective
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stupid or careless
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requiring little or no intellectual effort
a mindless task
Other Word Forms
- mindlessly adverb
- mindlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of mindless
before 1000; Middle English myndles, Old English gemyndlēas. See mind, -less
Example Sentences
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That “high, mindless scream in the getaway car,” Ebert writes, “provides, for me, a very adequate vision of hell.”
“Do you want to finish the book now or watch mindless TV with me?”
From Literature
They had done very little the past two days besides watch me spin gold or run mindless errands for the miller.
From Literature
The courageous people who answered his call at great personal risk aren’t mindless followers of a royal exile.
If this vapid, airless, mindless time-waster had subversive designs of being a satire about the first lady of the United States, there’s not much it would have changed.
From Los Angeles Times
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