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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mindless
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mindless violence (=stupid and without any purpose)
▪ Many have been victims of mindless violence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Stuffing envelopes is mindless work.
▪ The movie is full of mindless violence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Appearances of being vicious, mindless, or mediocre can be deceptive, and the deception is often studied and rehearsed.
▪ But the growth in consumer debt should not be simply seen and condemned as a complete descent into mindless consumerism.
▪ Some mindless individual has again stripped all the hangers from Parrock.
▪ Sometimes I felt a mindless, uncontrollable rage, a consumption that ran through my chest to my hands.
▪ The fate of the monastic libraries serves in popular imagination as a classic example of mindless iconoclasm.
▪ They were simply swept up in a mindless terror campaign.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mindless

Mindless \Mind"less\, a.

  1. Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.

  2. Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.

    Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mindless

c.1400, "unmindful, heedless, negligent," from mind (n.) + -less. Related: Mindlessly; mindlessness. Old English had myndleas "foolish, senseless."

Wiktionary
mindless

a. 1 Showing a lack of forethought or sense. 2 Having no sensible meaning or purpose.

WordNet
mindless
  1. adj. lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being; "the shrieking of the mindless wind"

  2. requiring little mental effort; "mindless tasks"

  3. not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw [syn: unmindful, forgetful] [ant: mindful]

  4. complacently or inanely foolish [syn: asinine, fatuous, inane, vacuous]

  5. not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn: reasonless, senseless]

Usage examples of "mindless".

He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.

They were now blind and apathetic, mindless perhaps, baggage which Mastrovin could cart about as he chose.

Emptiness, and not through a regressive dissolution of dialogical intersubjectivity into atomistic monological states and reductionistic mindless cognitive mechanism, the path the authors all too often stray into.

In a little while you will be just another mindless blob spreading my virus around the planet.

The bodiless head in the white chamber-the mindless idiot-thing he called, contemptuously, by the name of Wa-Wa-was the only brain he had thus far managed to keep alive for any significant length of time, after removing it from its body.

Sympathy for the mindless deader warred in him with the pain of loss, still fresh after four months.

But if he thought that Emich and his ten thousand were only a leaderless collection of peasants apt to go on a mindless rampage against the Jews, a look in the direction of the men about him swiftly put an end to that idea.

Without those two friendships, she would be either mindless magic fodder in the Warrens or already dead.

Certainly the apparently mindless service rendered by the land grubbers might have led their overseers to believe there was no reason that their charges need be watched too strictly.

Save for its long, beaklike snout, the ichthyosaur resembled a supershark, forty feet from snout to tail, and every inch of that forty feet crammed with mindless hunger and ferocity.

Since her father had died two months before, Maxima Collins had walked the hills every day, absorbing the wind and sun and rain with mindless gratitude.

A single mindless team member, a single misaimed arrow, and the Two-Legs would die and all would be lost.

If any of their descendants survived they must be utterly transformed by time, she thought, as different from those who built this moonlet as I am from my mindless Mesozoic ancestors.

Escaping from Mus and crossing the desert with a bunch of fearful, mindless creatures, two of them elderly .

I feel the frozen skin of my cheeks stretching under my thermal mask as I grin idiotically, a rictal grimace of terror and the sheer joy of mindless speed, my arms and hands adjusting constantly, automatically, instantly to changes in the ice-axe tiller and the ice-hammer brake.