mindless
Americanadjective
-
without intelligence; senseless.
a mindless creature.
-
unmindful or heedless.
mindless of all dangers.
adjective
-
stupid or careless
-
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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Grammy winner Lucy Dacus said she was most prolific as a songwriter when she worked a “mindless” job at a camera shop.
The researchers interpreted the gap between the two estimates, a difference of 212.3 decisions, as evidence that most food decisions are unconscious or "mindless."
From Science Daily
“Schumpeter’s line on creative destruction is tremendously important,” Mr. Rees-Mogg says, “but it’s not mindless destruction.”
Moxie moves mountains, and in a time when many of us are exhausted by celebrity influencing and mindless idol worship, Paltrow has maintained her enigmatic pull.
From Salon
Last year's word of the year, brain rot, captured the mental drain of mindless scrolling on Instagram or TikTok.
From BBC
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
