Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unintelligent; stupid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Weak in the brain; witless; stupid: as, “the dull brainless Ajax,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not comparable Having no
brain . - adjective comparable
Unintelligent , with littlecommon sense .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not using intelligence
Etymologies
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Examples
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The entire film is an exaggerated study in brainless women being used for decorative purposes, but it's so damn lousy that I can't even muster up any reactionary feminist offense to it.
June 27th, 2005 2005
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Many of the people in the article were just caught up in the system, like the teen age girl and do not deserve the labels her brainless reactionary legal system have put on her.
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While I don't demand experimental plot devices and untested narrative structure, as you insist, I do demand plot and narrative structure that isn't brainless, that isn't ripped off from crap movies.
Avatar: 400 Million Dollars Worth of Disappointment - Pink Raygun.com 2009
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On television, Lekota was clearly incensed and pointing to higing the song ... fools or brainless, which is the direct interpretation of
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The A-Team, a movie that was generously described as brainless, and that's next to a TV show from the 80s so you know things are bad.
Cinematical 2010
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The researchers were polite calling brainless babble "pointless."
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When Juluis Malema pronounced that Thabo Mbeki will be recalled, he was ridiculed. .when he pronounced that COPE will seize to exist in a not so distant future we was labelled a brainless rhetoric ...???
IOL: News 2009
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If the important role to play is some kind of brainless beauty queen who can't speak coherently and makes a fool out of herself every time she gets in front of the cameras, then yeah, she could definitely fill that role.
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I love it when we can dump this kind of brainless, racist, gloriously-empty trash into the laps of twelve year-olds!
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (Ray’s Review) | Obsessed With Film 2009
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Despite the solid start, there are still signs of the kind of brainless play that has plagued past Laker teams.
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