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Mindless vs Brainless - What's the difference?

mindless | brainless |

As adjectives the difference between mindless and brainless

is that mindless is showing a lack of forethought or sense while brainless is having no brain.

mindless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
  • Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
    • An act of mindless violence.
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  • Heedless.
  • (of a thing done) Overly repetitive and unchallenging.
  • Lacking a mind.
    • Atheism alleges that mindless scientific forces control the universe.

    Antonyms

    * mindful

    Anagrams

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    brainless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (lb) Having no brain.
  • (lb) Unintelligent, with little common sense.
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  • *:"I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,!"