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Mindless

adjective

Lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being.

Requiring little mental effort.

Not mindful or attentive. Synonyms: forgetful, unmindful.

Devoid of intelligence. Synonyms: asinine, fatuous, inane, vacuous.

Not marked by the use of reason. Synonyms: reasonless, senseless. "Reasonless hostility" , "A senseless act"

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"Mindless" Quotes from Famous Books

... certain, however, that the relations between Lincoln and Miss Todd were broken off for a time. He did go to Kentucky for a while, but this trip certainly was not due to insanity. Lincoln was never so mindless as some of his biographers would have us believe, and the breaking of the engagement was due to perfectly natural causes—the difference in temperament of the lovers, and Lincoln's inclination to procrastinate. ...

— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed

... which was sure to foster egotism. These were constitutional elements of that aloofness from men which characterised all his utterance. These disposing causes became inexorable fate, when, by the turn of the political wheel of fortune, he found himself alone amid the mindless dissipation and reckless materialism of the Restoration. He felt himself then at war with human society as constituted around him, and was thus driven to withdraw himself within a poetic world of his ...

— Milton • Mark Pattison

... subjects which interested him the most deeply, he had found May Webster a ready pupil; and when she differed from him she held her own with such merry defiance, that it gave her an added charm in his eyes. And now this mindless, fox-hunting squire was to carry her off, and life at Rudham would sink into one dead level of dulness. Thus it happened that he came ...

— The Village by the River • H. Louisa Bedford

... dazzling snow-mist shone. No church-bell lent its Christian tone To the savage air, no social smoke Curled over woods of snow-hung oak. A solitude made more intense By dreary-voiced elements, The shrieking of the mindless wind, The moaning tree-boughs swaying blind, And on the glass the unmeaning beat Of ghostly finger-tips of sleet. Beyond the circle of our hearth No welcome sound of toil or mirth Unbound the spell, and ...

— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck

... drugging or bludgeoning, but it would be racial suicide to attempt it. In the split moment of realization he would kill every human being on Earth. There would be nobody left to operate on his brain, to make him a mindless, powerless idiot for the rest of time. For any period of time, he corrected himself. His brain would ...

— The Mightiest Man • Patrick Fahy

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