mindless

Showing a lack of forethought or sense.

Adjective

  1. Showing a lack of forethought or sense.

    Synonyms: brainless unmindful senseless thoughtless

    Antonyms: mindful thoughtful

  2. Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
    • An act of mindless violence.
    • “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...

    Synonyms: senseless

  3. Heedless.
    • Near-synonyms: unmindful, absent-minded, thoughtless

    Synonyms: unmindful absent-minded thoughtless

    Antonyms: mindful

  4. Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
    • Near-synonyms: automatic, rote, dull

    Synonyms: automatic rote dull

    Antonyms: engrossing

  5. Lacking a mind.
    • Near-synonyms: brainless, unconscious, unsentient
    • Atheism alleges that mindless scientific forces control the universe.

    Synonyms: brainless unconscious unsentient

    Antonyms: conscious sentient

    Coordinate Terms: soulless

Origin

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

Forms

more mindless most mindless

Derived

meeting of the mindless mindlessly mindlessness