Dictionary Definition
mindless adj
1 lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of
a conscious being; "the shrieking of the mindless wind"
2 requiring little mental effort; "mindless
tasks"
3 not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful
of his steps he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw [syn: unmindful, forgetful] [ant: mindful]
5 not marked by the use of reason; "mindless
violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn: reasonless, senseless]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
- Having no sensible
meaning or purpose.
- An act of mindless violence.
- Heedless.
- In the context of "of a thing done": Overly repetitive and unchallenging.
- Lacking a mind.
- Atheism alleges that mindless scientific forces control the universe.
Translations
showing a lack of forethought or sense
having no sensible meaning or purpose
heedless
(of a thing done) overly repetitive and
unchallenging
lacking a mind
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a stranger to, aimless, airy, aloof, anarchic, angry, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, apathetic, asinine, asleep, ataractic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, blase, blind to, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bored, brainless, brutal, brute, brutelike, brutish, careless, casual, caught napping, causeless, chaotic, cursory, dead to, deaf to,
degage, designless, detached, devil-may-care,
disinterested,
dispassionate,
disregardant,
disregardful,
distant, driftless, dumb, dysteleological,
easygoing, fatuous, flippant, foolish, forgetful, frantic, free and easy, frenzied, fruity, furious, haphazard, headless, heedless, hellish, idiotic, ignorant, ill-advised,
ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged,
imbecilic, impassive, impercipient, impolitic, imprudent, in ignorance of,
inadvisable,
inattentive,
incognizant,
inconsiderate,
incurious, indifferent, indiscreet, indiscriminate, inept, inexcitable, inexpedient, inexplicable, infuriate, injudicious, insensate, insensible, insensible to,
insouciant, instinctive, instinctual, irrational, lackadaisical, lackbrained, lazy, lean-minded, lean-witted,
listless, lunatic, mad, maniac, mental, misadvised, misguided, moronic, myopic, napping, negligent, nitwitted, non compos mentis,
nonchalant, nonconceiving, nonrational, not bright, not
with it, nuts, oblivious, obtuse, of little brain, offhand, orgasmic, orgastic, out of it, pandemoniac, pea-brained,
perfunctory,
phlegmatic,
pin-brained, pococurante, promiscuous, purposeless, raging, random, ravening, raving, reasonless, reckless, regardless, respectless, rip-roaring,
senseless, shortsighted, silly, slackminded, slackwitted, stochastic, stolid, storming, stormy, stray, stupid, subhuman, tactless, tempestuous, thick, thickheaded, thoughtless, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, turned-off,
unaccommodating,
unaccountable,
unadvised, unanxious, unaware, unaware of, uncomplaisant, unconcerned, unconscious, unconscious of,
unconsidered,
uncooperative,
undiplomatic,
undirected, undiscerning, undiscriminating,
unforeseeing,
ungifted, unhearing, unheedful, unheeding, unhelpful, uninquiring, uninsightful, unintellectual, unintelligent, uninterested, uninvolved, unknowing, unmindful, unmindful of,
unmotivated,
unobliging, unperceiving, unprehensive, unprepared, unready, unrealizing, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsolicitous, unsound, unsuspecting, untactful, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, unwitting, uproarious, wild, withdrawn, witless, zoic, zooidal, zoologic