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Mindless   /mˈaɪndləs/   Listen
Mindless

adjective
1.
Lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being.
2.
Requiring little mental effort.
3.
Not mindful or attentive.  Synonyms: forgetful, unmindful.
4.
Devoid of intelligence.  Synonyms: asinine, fatuous, inane, vacuous.
5.
Not marked by the use of reason.  Synonyms: reasonless, senseless.  "Reasonless hostility" , "A senseless act"



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"Mindless" Quotes from Famous Books



... attention was riveted on an object up the street. Around a bend a few hundred yards away a huge wild devil of a thing swung unsteadily, recklessly, almost striking the curb and lamp-post; and then, righting itself, it came on with a rush—a mindless destroyer. Now on one side of the street, now in the middle, now on the other side; gliding along through the twilight, barely to be seen, creeping nearer and nearer through the shadows, now again on the wrong side of the street where it would ...
— A Cathedral Singer • James Lane Allen

... father's door, he lingered an instant and held out his hand. There was defiant sympathy in his act—disdain of the judgment of Kingsborough—and of General Battle, who was passing—and pity for a bruised common thing that looked at him with beautiful, mindless eyes. ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow

... and were watching the struggle with interest, but there was no warning from them. Whatever called Kaydessa into such mindless and will-less answer did not touch the animals. And neither Apache felt it. So perhaps only Kaydessa's people were subject to it, as she had thought. How far away was that machine? Not too near, for otherwise the ...
— The Defiant Agents • Andre Alice Norton

... to cloak it by this cannonade. With that in eye he has bundled leftwardly Thomiere's division; mindless that thereby His wing and centre's mutual maintenance Has gone, and left a yawning vacancy. So be it. Good. His laxness is ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy

... whatever he means to drink, and only mangles what he means to carve. Inattentive to all the regards of social life, he mistimes or misplaces everything. He disputes with heat, and indiscriminately, mindless of the rank, character, and situation of those with whom he disputes; absolutely ignorant of the several gradations of familiarity or respect, he is exactly the same to his superiors, his equals, and his inferiors; and therefore, by a necessary consequence, absurd to two of the three. Is ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield


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