Meanings
comparative more mindless · superlative most mindless
- 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.
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“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.
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), archived from the original on 23 Oct 2013Synonyms: 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
Synonyms: automatic, rote, dull · Antonyms: engrossing
- Lacking a mind.
Near-synonyms: brainless, unconscious, unsentient
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Atheism alleges that mindless scientific forces control the universe.
Synonyms: brainless, unconscious, unsentient · Antonyms: conscious, sentient
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveShowing a lack of forethought or sense.
adjectiveHaving no sensible meaning or purpose.
adjectiveOverly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivelacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being
adjectiverequiring little mental effort
adjectivenot marked by the use of reason
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Englishmyndlēas
- Middle Englishmyndles
- Englishmindless
From Middle English myndles, myndelees, myndeles, mendlees, from Old English myndlēas, ġemyndlēas (“foolish, senseless”), equivalent to mind + -less.
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Bulgarian необмислен, безсмислен
- необмислен (neobmislen)showing a lack of forethought or sense
- безсмислен (bezsmislen)having no sensible meaning or purpose
- небрежен (nebrežen)heedless
Esperanto senmensa
- senmensalacking a mind
French écervelé, irraisonné
- écerveléshowing a lack of forethought or sense
- irraisonnéhaving no sensible meaning or purpose
- gratuithaving no sensible meaning or purpose
- irréfléchiheedless
- aliénant(of a thing done) overly repetitive and unchallenging
- abrutissant(of a thing done) overly repetitive and unchallenging
- fastidieux(of a thing done) overly repetitive and unchallenging
German hirnlos
- hirnlosshowing a lack of forethought or sense
Polish bezrozumny
- bezrozumnyshowing a lack of forethought or sense
Russian непредусмотри́тельный, неосмы́сленный
- непредусмотри́тельный (nepredusmotrítelʹnyj)showing a lack of forethought or sense
- неосмы́сленный (neosmýslennyj)showing a lack of forethought or sense
- неразу́мный (nerazúmnyj)showing a lack of forethought or sense
- бессмы́сленный (bessmýslennyj)having no sensible meaning or purpose
- глу́пый (glúpyj)having no sensible meaning or purpose
- невнима́тельный (nevnimátelʹnyj)heedless
- небре́жный (nebréžnyj)heedless
- хала́тный (xalátnyj)heedless
- неразу́мный (nerazúmnyj)lacking a mind
- не име́ющий ра́зума (ne iméjuščij rázuma)lacking a mind
- не облада́ющий ра́зумом (ne obladájuščij rázumom)lacking a mind
Spanish insensato
- insensatoshowing a lack of forethought or sense
Vietnamese vô tri
- vô trilacking a mind
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Cite this entry
mindless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mindless
“mindless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mindless. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mindless,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mindless.
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