mindless
Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
Adjective
- Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
Synonyms: brainless unmindful senseless thoughtless
Antonyms: mindful thoughtful
- 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
- Heedless.
- Near-synonyms: unmindful, absent-minded, thoughtless
Synonyms: unmindful absent-minded thoughtless
Antonyms: mindful
- Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
- Near-synonyms: automatic, rote, dull
Antonyms: engrossing
- Lacking a mind.
- Near-synonyms: brainless, unconscious, unsentient
- Atheism alleges that mindless scientific forces control the universe.
Synonyms: brainless unconscious unsentient
Coordinate Terms: soulless
Origin
From Middle English myndles, myndelees, myndeles, mendlees, from Old English myndlēas, ġemyndlēas (“foolish, senseless”), equivalent to mind + -less.