mindless

/ˈmaɪn(d)lɪs/

/ˈmaɪndlɪs/

Mindless things are done without any care or thought. If the kid sitting next to you in class won't stop the mindless tapping of his pencil against his desk, you'll have a hard time focusing on your vocabulary quiz.

If something's careless or lacks reason, you can describe it as mindless, like the casual, mindless violence on a TV show. A mindless task is one that you can do without even thinking about it, like sweeping the sidewalk or stuffing fliers into envelopes. Mindless comes from the Old English myndleas, "foolish or senseless."

Definitions of mindless

1. adjective

   devoid of intelligence
   synonyms: asinine, fatuous, inane, vacuous

   foolish

   devoid of good sense or judgment
2. adjective

   lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being
   “the shrieking of the mindless wind”

   synonyms:

   meaningless, nonmeaningful

   having no meaning or direction or purpose
3. adjective

   not marked by the use of reason
   “mindless violence”

   synonyms: reasonless, senseless

   unreasonable

   not reasonable; not showing good judgment
4. adjective

   requiring little mental effort
   “mindless tasks”

   synonyms:

   nonintellectual

   not intellectual
5. adjective

   not mindful or attentive
   synonyms: forgetful, unmindful

   amnesiac, amnesic

   suffering from a partial loss of memory