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as in dumb
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily
a dead-end job fit only for mindless drones
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as in careless
not paying or showing close attention especially for the purpose of avoiding trouble
mindless of danger, the foolhardy skiers ignored the avalanche warnings
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as in stupidness
the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind
despised the sheer mindlessness of the movie's violence
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Recent Examples of mindless
PC Magazine, 16 July 2025
By contrast, using AI for mindless cost-cutting will be disastrous.
—Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Just knowing someone else is watching can make mindless scrolling less appealing.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
But the more puzzling sequences are offset by the mindless pleasure of destroying everything in your path, which is also a valid solution for many problems.
—Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 1 July 2025
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Adjective
The customization can also make the game a tad too overcomplicated, a funny contrast to the mindless destruction.
—PC Magazine, 16 July 2025
By contrast, using AI for mindless cost-cutting will be disastrous.
—Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Just knowing someone else is watching can make mindless scrolling less appealing.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
But the more puzzling sequences are offset by the mindless pleasure of destroying everything in your path, which is also a valid solution for many problems.
—Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mindless
Adjective
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Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.—
Daniel Jackson,
Allure,
18 July 2017
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Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.—
Andy Benoit,
The MMQB,
10 July 2017
Adjective
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Proof Carefully To Show Professionalism And Attention To Detail What gets my negative attention are résumés with careless errors—typos, missing words and inconsistent formatting.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Social media erupted in fear, and disgust, or simply threw shame his way for being careless.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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Mia promises not to ask for help or do anything stupid.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
1 Aug. 2025
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If the producers manage to create another roof moment, Torin and his stupid little hats are cooked.—
Olivia Crandall,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Playing in unsafe heat can cause immense stress to the body.—
Kalen Lumpkins,
Chicago Tribune,
25 July 2025
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In July, the city construction board declared the house an unsafe structure and gave the owners five days to fix the situation.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
25 July 2025
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The pulses appear to exert varying pressure that pushes on each rift zone differently, depending on the way the rift moves and the thickness of the crust on either side.—
Nora Bradford,
Scientific American,
7 July 2025
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If these specs are accurate, the unfolded thickness of the device is only slightly thinner (by 0.01 inches) than the previous model, while the new phone will actually be slightly heavier than its predecessor (by 0.03 ounces).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
5 July 2025
Adjective
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Progress toward the opening of the micro-home village has been slow following a ceremonial groundbreaking held in July 2023.—
Joseph Flaherty,
Arkansas Online,
30 July 2025
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As elevated mortgage rates continue to put a damper on the housing market locally and nationally, rising inventory, slower sales and lower prices have made for more favorable conditions for potential buyers in the Austin-area housing market.—
Shonda Novak,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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Aybar-Berroa also has a criminal history in New York City that includes arrests for second-degree reckless endangerment in May 2023 and fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officials said.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
25 July 2025
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He is charged with two counts of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime in the teens' shooting deaths.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
Noun
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Some things are too important to leave behind — like, for instance, the notion that stupidity can be a beautiful force for good, and not just an infinite fuel supply for evil.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
30 July 2025
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In the end, Haslam’s emphasis on American stupidity is as convincing as his absolute strictures against a moral foreign policy, which in any event isn’t delegitimized by the errors of the likes of Biden and McFaul.—
Samuel Moyn,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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“Mindless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mindless. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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