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Meanings of brainless in English

Not using intelligence.

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Without brain or personality, excessively superficial.

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Examples for "braindead"
Examples for "braindead"
1
You come out of that week braindead because it batters you.
The Guardian
2
The braindead woman kept alive because a constitution owns her womb.
The Irish Times
3
We do that in order to make you feel it's not just like an NPC or braindead obstacle.
The South African
4
The very braindead Roosevelt Smith needed about two hours in the large interrogation room before making his first down payment on Out Number 3:
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
5
The CBS series BrainDead, which aired last summer, is a bizarre mashup of gross-out horror, screwball comedy, and political satire.
Wired
Usage of brainless in English
1
Player's action: Gamer handily blows away small, disorganized units of brainless goons.
Wired
2
Some classmates chanted a brainless song, its words confused by the wind.
Mysterious Skin
3
The same thing is true with some of the other brainless monsters.
The new yorker
4
You cannot conceive in your mind how stubborn and brainless they are.
The White Company
5
There's a certain brainless eroticism to this sort of thing, for me.
Cleaving
6
He settled on the swing, as happy and brainless as a clam.
Dead until dark
7
Well, oh boy, have we got a brainless espionage caper for you.
The Irish Times
8
I am married, married forever to that tousle-headed, bristle-jawed, brainless, heartless dub.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
9
You think I'm a fool and an ass-youignorant, brainless, lying cub!
The Right of Way — Volume 01
10
This devil had not acted in the normal brainless fashion of its kin.
Star Born
11
And the brainless laugh of the Mad Mullah was very trying.
The Swoop! or, How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great I...
12
I mean that the intellectual, the clever, invariably choose the insipid brainless girl.
Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl / Sister of that "Idle Fellow."
13
The new arrival was perfectly attired, and handsome, in a supercilious, brainless way.
Despair's Last Journey
14
Maybe the brainless man has actually told Morgan that we have a relationship.
Perilous Shield
15
In her face there seemed to him something horribly brainless-asshe sat staring.
Jacob's Room
16
Make that the brainless heroine going where she knows she shouldn't.
In the Dark
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Brainless through the time
Brainless across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common