mindless
Mindless things are done without any care or thought. If the kid sitting next to you in class won't stop the mindless tapping of his pencil against his desk, you'll have a hard time focusing on your vocabulary quiz.
If something's careless or lacks reason, you can describe it as mindless, like the casual, mindless violence on a TV show. A mindless task is one that you can do without even thinking about it, like sweeping the sidewalk or stuffing fliers into envelopes. Mindless comes from the Old English myndleas, "foolish or senseless."
Definitions of mindless
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devoid of intelligence
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lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being“the shrieking of the mindless wind”
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Synonyms:
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meaningless, nonmeaningful
having no meaning or direction or purpose
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meaningless, nonmeaningful
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not marked by the use of reason“mindless violence”
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synonyms:
reasonless, senseless
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unreasonable
not reasonable; not showing good judgment
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unreasonable
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requiring little mental effort“mindless tasks”
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Synonyms:
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nonintellectual
not intellectual
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nonintellectual
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not mindful or attentive
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