Mindless
['maɪndlɪs] or ['maɪndləs]
Definition
(adj.) requiring little mental effort; 'mindless tasks' .
(adj.) lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being; 'the shrieking of the mindless wind' .
(adj.) not marked by the use of reason; 'mindless violence'; 'reasonless hostility'; 'a senseless act' .
Editor: Tess--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
(a.) Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Destitute of mind.[2]. Regardless, careless, heedless, forgetful, neglectful, negligent.
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Examples
- Clara was honest and quiet; but heavy, mindless, and unimpressible: not one whit to my taste. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He realised that there were great mysteries to be unsealed, sensual, mindless, dreadful mysteries, far beyond the phallic cult. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She hated it, she knew how utterly cut off it was, how hideous and how sickeningly mindless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He walked on beside her, a striding, mindless body. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They were, unconsciously, his idol, his God made manifeSt. In them he worshipped the highest, the great, sympathetic, mindless Godhead of humanity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She only sat in her room like a moping, dishevelled hawk, motionless, mindless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She sat in a fullness and a pure potency that was like apathy, mindless and immobile. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He threw a rug on to the bracken, and they sat in stillness and mindless silence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And here was she, left with all the anguish of consciousness, whilst he was sunk deep into the other element of mindless, remote, living shadow-gleam. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In their voices she could hear the voluptuous resonance of darkness, the strong, dangerous underworld, mindless, inhuman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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