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Brainless

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having no brain. not-comparable

    "Surely it was more likely that a brainless creature, acting solely by vague predatory instinct, would give up the chase when I disappeared, and, after a pause of astonishment, would wander away in search of some other prey?"

  2. 2
    Unintelligent, with little common sense. comparable

    ""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,[…]!""

  3. 3
    Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.

    "Near-synonyms: automatic, rote, dull"

Adjective
  1. 1
    not using intelligence wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English braynles; equivalent to brain + -less.

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