brainless
adjEtymology From Middle English braynles; equivalent to brain + -less.
1
Having no brain.
- 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?1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
2
Unintelligent, with little common sense.
- "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,[…]!"1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
3
Of a thing done Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
- Near-synonyms: automatic, rote, dull
- Derived terms
- brainlessly, brainlessness