Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mindless"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mindless
adj 1: 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}]
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