mindless

English

Etymology

From Middle English myndles, myndelees, myndeles, mendlees, from Old English myndlēas, ġemyndlēas (“foolish, senseless”), equivalent to mind +‎ -less.

Adjective

mindless (comparative more mindless, superlative most mindless)

Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
An act of mindless violence.
- 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:
  “I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship.
Heedless.
(of a thing done) Overly repetitive and unchallenging.
Lacking a mind.
Atheism alleges that mindless scientific forces control the universe.

Antonyms

mindful

Derived terms

Translations

showing a lack of forethought or sense

Russian: непредусмотри́тельный (ru) (nepredusmotrítelʹnyj), неосмы́сленный (ru) (neosmýslennyj), неразу́мный (ru) (nerazúmnyj)

having no sensible meaning or purpose

Bulgarian: безсмислен (bg) (bezsmislen)

Russian: бессмы́сленный (ru) (bessmýslennyj), глу́пый (ru) (glúpyj)

heedless

Russian: невнима́тельный (ru) (nevnimátelʹnyj), небре́жный (ru) (nebréžnyj), хала́тный (ru) (xalátnyj)

(of a thing done) overly repetitive and unchallenging

lacking a mind

Russian: неразу́мный (ru) (nerazúmnyj), не име́ющий ра́зума (ne iméjuščij rázuma), не облада́ющий ра́зумом (ne obladájuščij rázumom)

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Turkish: ^{(please verify)} akılsız (tr)

Anagrams

mildness

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