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mindless
CIDE DICTIONARY
mindless, a.
- Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking. [1913 Webster]
- Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. [1913 Webster]"Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mindless, adj.
1 lacking intelligence; stupid.
2 not requiring thought or skill (totally mindless work).
3 (usu. foll. by of) heedless of (advice etc.).
1 lacking intelligence; stupid.
2 not requiring thought or skill (totally mindless work).
3 (usu. foll. by of) heedless of (advice etc.).
Derivative
mindlessly adv. mindlessness n.
THESAURUS
mindless
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, zoologicROGET THESAURUS
mindless
Insensibility
N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.Incogitancy
N incogitancy, vacancy, inunderstanding, fatuity thoughtlessness, vacuity, couch potato, vegetable, vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking, inconsiderate, thoughtless, mindless, no-brain, vacuous, absent, diverted, irrational narrow-minded, unthought of, undreamt 'of, unconsidered, off one's mind, incogitable, not to be thought of, absence d'esprit, pabulum pictura pascit inani.Inattention
N inattention, inconsideration, inconsiderateness, oversight, inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard, supineness, etourderie, want of thought, heedlessness, insouciance, abstraction, absence of mind, absorption of mind, preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction, inattentive, unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning, inadvertent, mindless, regardless, respectless, listless, blind, deaf, bird-witted, hand over head, cursory, percursory, giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained, unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele, offhand, dizzy, muzzy, brainsick, giddy, giddy as a goose, wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying, heedless, careless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, absent, abstracted, distrait, absentminded, lost, lost in thought, wrapped in thought, rapt, in the clouds, bemused, dreaming on other things, musing on other things, preoccupied, engrossed, daydreaming, in a reverie, off one's guard, napping, dreamy, caught napping, disconcerted, distracted, put out, inattentively, inadvertently, absent-mindedly, per incuriam, sub silentio, Int, stand at ease, stand easy!, the attention wanders, one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's wits gone a bird's nesting, it never entered into one's head, the mind running on other things, one's thoughts being elsewhere, had it been a bear it would have bitten you.Folly
N imbecility folly, want of intelligence &c, want of intellect, shadowness, silliness, foolishness, imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let, stupidity, stolidity, hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness, incompetence, one's weak side, not one's strong point, bias, infatuation, simplicity, puerility, babyhood, dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity, idiocy, idiotism, driveling, folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit, sophistry, giddiness, eccentricity, extravagance, rashness, act of folly, unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning, mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless, halfbaked, having no head, not bright, inapprehensible, weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded, beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed, weak-minded, feeble-minded, dull minded, shallow minded, lack- brained, rattle-brained, rattle headed, half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle- pated, addle-brained, dim-sighted, short-sighted, thick-skulled, weak in the upper story, shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony, dull, dull as a beetle, stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish, asinine, inapt, prosaic, hebetudinous, childish, child-like, infantine, infantile, babyish, babish, puerile, anile, simple, old-womanish, fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling, blatant, babbling, vacant, sottish, bewildered, blockish, unteachable Boeotian, Boeotic, bovine, ungifted, undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical, apish, simious, foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept, maudlin, narrow-minded, bigoted, giddy, rash, eccentric, foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine, ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised, mal entendu, inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical, extravagant, sleeveless, idle, pointless, useless, inexpedient, frivolous, Davus sum non, a fool's bolt is soon shot clitellae bovi sunt im, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, il n' a ni bouche ni eperon, the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound.Oblivion
N oblivion, obliviousness, lethe, forgetfulness, amnesia, obliteration of &c, insensibility to the past, short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory, decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory, waters of Lethe, waters of oblivion, amnesty, general pardon, repressed memory, forgotten, unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of mind, buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion, clean forgotten, gone out of one's head, gone out of one's recollection, forgetful, oblivious, mindless, Lethean, insensible to the past, heedless, non mi ricordo, the memory failing, the memory deserting one, being at fault, being in fault, To the Future.For further exploring for "mindless" in Webster Dictionary Online