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单词 brainless
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Definition of brainless in English:

brainless

adjective ˈbreɪnləsˈbreɪnləs
  • Stupid; very foolish.

    a brainless bimbo
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But it's hard to be motivated about a project you're really sick of, that's mostly brainless.
    • Even when they're labelled stupid and brainless, they receive the news with huge smiles on their faces.
    • I smash my car in a completely my fault brainless bimbo type accident, and then I get to not pay for the repairs.
    • They're about the vulgar, grunting, brainless way in which these subjects are handled.
    • The decisions of the King will turn out to be more brainless, stupid, foolish, senseless, and imbecilic.
    • I'm all for brainless fun, but the fun got left somewhere behind here.
    • These people, most of them serious, brainless people with no sense of humour, have to think of an insulting nickname for me.
    • He's the stupid, brainless one, and I won't give him any satisfaction.
    • The series looks cool but is actually quite brainless.
    • I'm going to go and read a brainless blockbuster instead.
    • Any brainless idiot can break something and any halfwit with a box of matches can start a fire.
    • Don't succumb to the squealing demands of the noisy and brainless.
    • What better place to celebrate brainless caterwauling and noisy drivel?
    • She didn't show the slightest discomfort at being flirtatious or coming across as a brainless bimbo.
    • As if making and receiving calls were not dangerous enough, I have seen some brainless drivers reading text messages at the wheel.
    • This reductive, brainless jingoism is just too weirdly, sadly topical.
    • The film is filled with so many such ridiculous and brainless scenes that you've tuned off barely fifteen minutes into the film.
    • Many assume we are brainless, archaic and ignorant brutes.
    • Churchy is a little too brainless to resist evil at first, though too good-natured to persist in it.
    • For once they are not cartoons but people whose intelligence is pleasantly plausible instead of being a brainless plot device.
    Synonyms
    stupid, foolish, witless, unintelligent, ignorant, mindless, idiotic, imbecilic, imbecile, half-witted, simple-minded, silly, empty-headed, half-baked
    informal dumb, brain-dead, moronic, cretinous, thick, as thick as two short planks, thickheaded, dopey, dozy, birdbrained, pea-brained, pinheaded, dippy, lamebrained, dunderheaded, wooden-headed
    British informal divvy
    Scottish &amp Northern English informal glaikit
    North American informal dumb-ass, chowderheaded
    South African informal dof
    West Indian informal dotish

Derivatives

  • brainlessly

  • adverb
    • These ‘demoralised’ pupils brainlessly deposit their rubbish on the streets daily, while the ‘demoralised’ staff, who must be aware of the situation, do little or nothing to stop it.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Too many people quit after looking at two or three pages - brainlessly dismissive though this may be, it's rather less likely to happen with the printed version.
      • This, plus an ending so brainlessly upbeat it looks as if it was borrowed from a different movie, makes The Bone Collector the least impressive release of the week.
      • Statistics are recycled brainlessly because numbers add a sense of false authority.
      • Look, if the boy is cute-as-a-button but brainlessly boring, stick it out through coffee.
  • brainlessness

  • nounˈbreɪnləsnəsˈbreɪnləsnəs
    • One character points out that he thinks that ‘Rat Race to me is going to be a mix of complete brainlessness and The Matrix.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If Ruby is the big sister of bimbo-land, we have a whole stable of younger fillies parading their brainlessness thanks to this TV channel which apparently feels that cricket is not sport, but entertainment.
      • And while seemingly well adjusted, Ruben too is dispirited, trading on the bodies and brainlessness of his fighters for a few dollars and the dream of the big time.
      • It is easy to laugh - as I did, regularly - at the brainlessness behind some of the schemes documented here.
      • And with House Of Wax's combination of brainlessness and boredom, that's a truly scary thought.
 
 

Definition of brainless in US English:

brainless

adjectiveˈbreɪnləsˈbrānləs
  • Stupid; foolish.

    a brainless bimbo
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But it's hard to be motivated about a project you're really sick of, that's mostly brainless.
    • Many assume we are brainless, archaic and ignorant brutes.
    • The film is filled with so many such ridiculous and brainless scenes that you've tuned off barely fifteen minutes into the film.
    • Don't succumb to the squealing demands of the noisy and brainless.
    • The decisions of the King will turn out to be more brainless, stupid, foolish, senseless, and imbecilic.
    • They're about the vulgar, grunting, brainless way in which these subjects are handled.
    • She didn't show the slightest discomfort at being flirtatious or coming across as a brainless bimbo.
    • The series looks cool but is actually quite brainless.
    • Churchy is a little too brainless to resist evil at first, though too good-natured to persist in it.
    • As if making and receiving calls were not dangerous enough, I have seen some brainless drivers reading text messages at the wheel.
    • This reductive, brainless jingoism is just too weirdly, sadly topical.
    • For once they are not cartoons but people whose intelligence is pleasantly plausible instead of being a brainless plot device.
    • I smash my car in a completely my fault brainless bimbo type accident, and then I get to not pay for the repairs.
    • Even when they're labelled stupid and brainless, they receive the news with huge smiles on their faces.
    • Any brainless idiot can break something and any halfwit with a box of matches can start a fire.
    • I'm going to go and read a brainless blockbuster instead.
    • What better place to celebrate brainless caterwauling and noisy drivel?
    • These people, most of them serious, brainless people with no sense of humour, have to think of an insulting nickname for me.
    • He's the stupid, brainless one, and I won't give him any satisfaction.
    • I'm all for brainless fun, but the fun got left somewhere behind here.
    Synonyms
    stupid, foolish, witless, unintelligent, ignorant, mindless, idiotic, imbecilic, imbecile, half-witted, simple-minded, silly, empty-headed, half-baked
 
 
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