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say it: MAHYND-luhs
mindless is an adjective meaning "lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being". It carries 5 recorded senses.
lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being
“the shrieking of the mindless wind”
not marked by the use of reason
“mindless violence”
“reasonless hostility”
“a senseless act”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mindless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.