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mindless, a.|ˈmaɪndlɪs|
[f. mind n.1 + -less.]
1. Chiefly of persons and their attributes: Destitute of mind; unintelligent, senseless. Also, † that is out of his mind, stupefied, insane.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 326 Se wisdom.. hine sylfne ætbret fram..myndleasum ᵹeðohtum. a1400–50Alexander 5399 Oure mode kyng was so maied myndles him semed. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 118 As men mindelesse. 1513Douglas æneis iv. ii. 30 And, half myndles, agane sche langis sair. 1592Davies Immort. Soul ix. ii, God first made Angels bodiless, pure Minds; Then other Things, which mindless Bodies be. 1633Orkney Witch Trial in Abbotsford Cl. Misc. I. 151 Scho was senceles and myndles for ane long speace. a1679W. Outram Serm. (1682) 468 Nor is the Devil asleep or mindless. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. i. i. i. 5 The mindless copyist studies Raffaelle, but not what Raffaelle studied. 1866Sat. Rev. 19 May 602/2 What an amount of mindless rubbish a well-educated gentleman has the audacity..to lay before the public. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. I. 35 It..stands fast in mindless immobility.
2. Unmindful, thoughtless, heedless, disregardful, negligent, forgetful, careless of.
a1547Surrey æneid iv. (1557) F iij b, Beastes and fowles..Laide downe to slepe by silence of the night..; mindlesse of trauels past. 1641Hinde J. Bruen viii. 30 So mindlesse of their owne duties. 1697Dryden æneid v. 225 Mindless of others Lives..and careless of his own. 1795Hist. in Ann. Reg. 22 The ministers of Russia,..mindless of this representation, insisted on the appointment. 1895Sir J. Crowe Remin. ix. 242 The younger men..dive for sixpences, mindless of sharks.
b. const. in, whether.
1641Hinde J. Bruen xviii. 58 Being both mindlesse in observing, and carelesse in retaining what they heare. 1786A. Seward Lett. (1811) I. 232, I choose..the strongest which spontaneously occur, to express my idea..; mindless whether they do, or do not form a part of the fashionable vocabulary of Lord Fillagree and Lady Pamtickle.
Hence ˈmindlessly adv., in a mindless or unintelligent manner. ˈmindlessness, the state or condition of being mindless, heedlessness; occas. total privation of mental power.
1646T. Coleman Brotherly Exam. Re-ex. 5 There was either ignorance or mindlessnesse in him that sets it downe. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. vi. 171 He observed the luxury and dissoluteness of Philopator and his mindlesness of his affairs. 1704M. Henry Fam. Relig. Wks. (1853) I. 266/2 Your backwardness and mindlessness will be their greatest discouragement. 1857Nat. Mag. II. 15 A poor idiot-girl who always came,—but as I thought mindlessly,—burst into tears and exclaimed, My mother, my Mother! 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 304 We should have mindlessness before complete organic decay and death take place. Ibid. 383 The general aspect is that of mindlessness. 1963Times 11 June 3/7 Dumitrescu worked away mindlessly like a machine at the head of the group. a1966M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) xv. 170 Temper and hysteria had fought mindlessly for the upper hand. 1972Publishers' Weekly 21 Aug. 71/3 The result is mindlessly entertaining. |