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Dictionary: mind·less   (mīnd'lĭs) pronunciation
adj.
    1. Lacking intelligence or good sense; foolish.
    2. Having no intelligent purpose, meaning, or direction: mindless violence.
  1. Giving or showing little attention or care; heedless: mindless of the dangers.
mindlessly mind'less·ly adv.
mindlessness mind'less·ness n.

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adjective

  1. Displaying a complete lack of forethought and good sense: brainless, fatuous, foolish, insensate, senseless, silly, unintelligent, weak-minded, witless. See ability/inability, planned/unplanned.
  2. Lacking rational direction or purpose: meaningless, pointless, purposeless, senseless. Idioms: without rhyme or reason. See purpose/purposelessness.
  3. Showing no concern, attention, or regard: careless, forgetful, heedless, unconcerned, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking. See careful/careless.

Antonyms: mindless
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adj

Definition: oblivious, stupid; automatic
Antonyms: intelligent, mindful, thinking, thoughtful


WordNet: mindless
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The adjective has 5 meanings:

Meaning #1: lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being

Meaning #2: requiring little mental effort

Meaning #3: not mindful or attentive
  Synonyms: unmindful, forgetful

Meaning #4: complacently or inanely foolish
  Synonyms: asinine, fatuous, inane, vacuous

Meaning #5: not marked by the use of reason
  Synonyms: reasonless, senseless


Translations: Mindless
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - sjælløs, tanketom, ubetænksom

Nederlands (Dutch)
onnadenkend, onbezonnen, niet lettend op, ondoordacht, dom, geesteloos

Français (French)
adj. - bête, débile, abrutissant (un travail), gratuit (du vandalisme), machinal (une tâche)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - geistlos, hirnlos, sinnlos

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αλόγιστος, απερίσκεπτος, απρόσεκτος, ανόητος, άμυαλος, αδιάφορος

Italiano (Italian)
sventato, irragionevole

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - descuidado

Русский (Russian)
глупый, бессмысленный, не считающийся с кем-л.

Español (Spanish)
adj. - sin inteligencia, estúpido, despreocupado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - andefattig, glömsk, tanklös

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
不小心的, 不顾虑的, 不留神的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 不小心的, 不顧慮的, 不留神的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 바보 같은, 무심한, 주의를 기울이지 않는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 気を付けない, 思慮のない, 愚かな, 頭を使わない

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) بدون عقل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮טיפש, חסר-דעה, לא זהיר, לא משגיח ב-, מתעלם מ-, לא מצריך מחשבה או כישורים‬


 
 
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