mindlessly
- adverb
- /ˈmaɪndləsli/
- Most of us want to spend hours and hours scrolling mindlessly on dating apps.
Most of us live mindlessly most of the time.
- Most of us live mindlessly most of the time.
- Time would be mindlessly allowed to fly by and be frittered away.
- What happened is you just, you no longer mindlessly snack.
- It's, I don't see you mindlessly scrolling much at all.
- But what we often do is we consume mindlessly.
- They're just mindlessly, cluelessly, uncomprehendingly doing their little thing.
- So you want to hydrate enough so that you are not eating mindlessly.
- I tell you what, as fun as this is, it is so hard to like stay awake when you're just mindlessly digging with a shovel.
- Like people have a certain amount of time every day to go spend on just mindlessly scrolling or do whatever they do.
- If anything, we're kind of going in the direction of deflation, which if we keep printing money mindlessly, isn't that inflation going to come at some point?
Examples
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I went to the kitchen and stood mindlessly in front of the stove for ten minutes.
Fiction book (2002) -
Bird trotted after him on its big flapping feet, mindlessly trampling anyone or anything in its path.
Fiction book (2002) -
Most of us live mindlessly most of the time.
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So number one was mindlessly taking the the first small step.
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I will not have my family mindlessly sitting around a telephone watching television all day.
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I fed the money back into the machine mindlessly until I lost it.
Fiction book (1996) -
I hate to think how many I'm mindlessly paying without even making much use of them.
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But you let them pass, knowing that you want only to act intentionally, not automatically, mindlessly.
Academic text (1999) -
We're either surfing on the Internet, texting on our cell phones, or staring mindlessly at a television set.
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I went to the kitchen and stood mindlessly in front of the stove for ten minutes.
Synonyms
Without thinking or knowing you do something
To act in a lazy way without a clear purpose
Without a clear purpose, direction, or plan
In a distracted way, as if your mind is somewhere else
In a way that you do something without thinking or paying attention
In a cheerful, careless way that shows little concern
In a way that has no good reason or purpose
In a way that shows you are not paying attention because your mind is somewhere else
In a way that has no purpose or use
Without thinking carefully or caring about others
In a way that shows no careful attention
In a blank way that shows no interest or thought
Speak or act without careful thought
To do something without thinking carefully first
Not noticing what happens around you
In a way that shows a person is lost in thought and not paying attention
Acting without thinking
Acts without thought or understanding
In a careless way without thinking
In a way that shows no attention to what is happening
In a way that shows little thought or understanding
Doing something without a clear aim or plan
For no reason
In an unplanned way not on purpose
Antonyms
How Thoughtful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mindlessly is made from the parts mind (meaning 'thought' or 'attention'), plus -less ('without') and -ly which makes it an adverb. So mindlessly means doing something 'without thought' or attention — the opposite of mindful and, like careless, it shows a lack of thinking while you act.