mindless
/maɪnd.ləs/
mindless adjective: showing a lack of forethought or sense.
Adjective
mindless (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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- 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
mindless meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam
mindless in Hindi
- mindless, shiftless
- नासमझ nāsamajh
mindless in Marathi
- mindless
- बेभान bebhān
mindless in Urdu
- mindless, shiftless
- ناسمجھ nāsamajh
mindless in Malayalam
- കാര്യമില്ലാത്ത, ശ്രദ്ധ അർഹിക്കാത്ത, നിസ്സാരമായ, ബുദ്ധിഹീനമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- mindless in Vietnamese
- vô tri
Examples of mindless in a sentence
- Trans girls need Masters to love them and protect them and keep them as mindless obedient pets.
- It augers down again behind him to gyre like a mindless deadly battling top.
- Each of them branded on his memory thanks to mindless leafings through the greasy hotel guidebook.
Synonyms of mindless
Antonyms
Forms of mindless
| comparative | more mindless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most mindless |
Origin of mindless
From Middle English myndles, myndelees, myndeles, mendlees, from Old English myndlēas, ġemyndlēas (“foolish, senseless”), equivalent to mind + -less.
Words formed from mindless
Phrases with mindless
Questions about mindless
- What does mindless mean?
- Mindless means showing a lack of forethought or sense.
- What is mindless in Hindi?
- Mindless in Hindi is नासमझ (nāsamajh). See Mindless meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mindless?
- Mindless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce mindless?
- Mindless is pronounced /maɪnd.ləs/.
Words near mindless in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mindless (page history and authors); नासमझ (Hindi) (page history and authors); बेभान (Marathi) (page history and authors); ناسمجھ (Urdu) (page history and authors); mindless (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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