Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🤖 Without thinking 🗂️ Needs no thought 🧟 Cannot think
mindless

mindless

20 4.7
Having no ability to think or be aware
  • adjective
  • /ˈmaɪndləs/
  • Offensive
: [OFENSIVO] sin capacidad de pensamiento
  • Let it not be said that we reduced ourselves to be brutes and mindless beasts of burden.

Sharks are not mindless killing machine man eaters.

Examples

  • No one in The Last of Us is a mindless drone set on killing the main characters.

    Blog text (22)

  • The mindless wind would rip the leaves off the trees and send them swirling.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • But it requires a serious commitment to stopping mindless consumption of goods and services, as well as understanding.

    Blog text (9)

  • We are not mindless savages.

    The Ant Bully (2006)

  • They're mindless monsters, and there are a lot of them.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Usually I watch reruns of sitcoms or whatever mindless TV show I can find until I fall asleep.

    Blog text (30)

  • Mindless little drones.

    Descendants 3 (2019)

  • The males sat in circles and chanted or sat alone, lost in a mindless torpor.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • What would it be like to see my country devolve and deteriorate from democracy to mindless, soulless cult worship?

  • He followed the mindless drone of the music, unable to think of anything else.

Synonyms

brainless
vsmindless
  • Offensive
24 3.5

Very stupid and not using common sense

refers to literal absence of conscious thought rather than mere low intelligence
headless
vsmindless
  • Offensive
5 6.8

Acting without thinking or planning

is about complete inability to have conscious thought, not just poor planning
braindead
vsmindless
  • Offensive
1 7.3

Very stupid and showing little thought

is a neutral label for lacking conscious thought without strong insult
nonsentient
vsmindless
1 9.0

Not able to feel or be aware of things

focuses on inability to think rather than inability to sense or perceive

Antonyms

aware
∞ 2.7

Knowing that something exists or is happening

thoughtful
68 2.6

Serious and quietly thinking about something

Compounds

meeting of the mindless
  • Offensive
9.2

A gathering where people have no useful ideas or real discussion

Surface Forms

mindless positive
mindlesser comparative
mindlessest superlative

Morphology

mindless = mind (transparent) = mind + less

Denotes lack of the capacity or exercise of thought; derivation 'mind' + '-less' is straightforward.

Etymology

Mindless comes from mind 'the part that thinks' and -less 'without', so it can mean 'without the ability to think', which is why we use it for creatures or things that seem to have no thought or awareness.