adj
Meaning 1
Having no brain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: anencephalous
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
brainless
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adj
Meaning 2
Unintelligent, with little common sense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: half-brained, half-witted, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, braindead, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, daft, dense, dented, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, dim, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dull, dumber than a box of rocks, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, goofy, hammer-headed, idiotic, ignorant, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, ridiculous, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, silly, simple, slow, slow on the uptake, slow-witted, smooth-brained, stolid, stupid, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, thick, unapprehensive, unclever, uninformed, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as an ox, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as dirt, dumber than a rock, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as two short planks, thick as a whale omelette, ass-brained, fuckwitted, shit-for-brains, thick as pig shit
Antonyms: brainy
adj
Meaning 3
Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: automatic, rote, dull
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mindless, automatic, rote, dull
Antonyms: engrossing
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
not using intelligence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: headless
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English braynles; equivalent to brain + -less.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: անխելք (anxelkʻ) — having no brain
- Belarusian: бязмо́зглы (bjazmózhly) — having no brain
- Belarusian: бязмо́згі (bjazmózhi) — having no brain
- Bengali: মস্তিষ্কহীন (mostiśkohin) — having no brain
- Bulgarian: безмо́зъчен (bezmózǎčen) — having no brain
- Esperanto: sencerba — having no brain
- Finnish: aivoton — having no brain
- Georgian: უტვინო (uṭvino) — having no brain
- German: hirnlos — having no brain
- Greek: ανεγκέφαλος (anegkéfalos) — having no brain
- Kazakh: мисыз (misyz) — having no brain
- Kazakh: ми жоқ (mi joq) — having no brain
- Lithuanian: besmegenis — having no brain
- Māori: rorokore — having no brain
- Persian: بیمغز (bi-maġz) — having no brain
- Polish: bezmózgi — having no brain
- Russian: безмо́зглый (bezmózglyj) — having no brain
- Spanish: descerebrado — having no brain
- Turkish: beyinsiz — having no brain
- Ukrainian: безмо́зкий (bezmózkyj) — having no brain
- Belarusian: бязмо́зглы (bjazmózhly) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Belarusian: бязмо́згі (bjazmózhi) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Bengali: মস্তিষ্কহীন (mostiśkohin) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Bulgarian: безмо́зъчен (bezmózǎčen) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Chinese Cantonese: 冇腦 /冇脑 (mou5 nou5) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Chinese Mandarin: 瞎頭子 /瞎头子 (xiātóuzi) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Chinese Mandarin: 無頭腦的 /无头脑的 (wútóunǎo de) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Finnish: aivoton — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- French: sans cervelle — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Georgian: უტვინო (uṭvino) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- German: gedankenlos — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- German: einfältig — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- German: hirnlos — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Greek: ανεγκέφαλος (anegkéfalos) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Greek: άμυαλος (ámyalos) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Greek: ανόητος (anóitos) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Japanese: 頭が悪い (atama ga warui) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Kazakh: мисыз (misyz) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Kazakh: ми жоқ (mi joq) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Lithuanian: besmegenis — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Māori: rorokore — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Persian: بیمغز (bi-maġz) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Polish: bezmózgi — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Portuguese: descerebrado — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Russian: безмо́зглый (bezmózglyj) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Spanish: descerebrado — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Turkish: akılsız — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Turkish: geri zekalı — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Turkish: gerzek — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Ottoman Turkish: بوك (böñ) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Ottoman Turkish: شاشقین (şaşkın) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense
- Ukrainian: безмо́зкий (bezmózkyj) — unintelligent; having little or no common sense