brainless

[ breyn-lis ]

adjective

1. mentally weak; foolish; witless; stupid.

brainless

/ ˈbreɪnlɪs /

adjective

1. stupid or foolish

Derived Forms

• ˈbrainlessness, noun
• ˈbrainlessly, adverb

Other Words From

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of brainless¹

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

Example Sentences

This alone could be the preamble to an adequate brainless action comedy.

From Time

Like mirrored sunglasses and beer koozies, the brainless summer entertainment is a warm-weather staple.

From Time

It appears that simple creatures — including, now, the brainless hydra — can sleep.

From Quanta Magazine

Further away, the scientists found a cluster made up of brainless things, such as plants and free‐living bacteria.

From Quanta Magazine

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• dumb
• mindless