brainless
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Synonyms & Antonyms for brainless
Synonyms
airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
Antonyms
apt, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, fast, hyperintelligent, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, supersmart, ultrasmart
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The lad made one tackle on Sunday and committed seven fouls, including the brainless lunge on Son Heung-min that gave Spurs their second goal. — SI.com, "Matteo Guendouzi: Midfielder Delivers Performance Worthy of His Terrific Haircut in NLD," 2 Sep. 2019 Desperate to meet women and open their own dance club, brainless brothers Steve and Doug Butabi cruise Beverly Hills. — Los Angeles Times, "Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019," 11 Aug. 2019 While some readers like brainless romantic books for the beach, others prefer gripping thrillers, like this new release. — Lindsay Tigar, CNN Underscored, "These Amazon best-selling books are the ultimate beach reads," 25 July 2019 Now along with summer heat, mosquitoes and brainless movies comes the Hollywood Bowl, where no-brainers necessarily fund the revolution, where what has always sold still sells. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: Dudamel marks his 10th L.A. Phil anniversary with a Hollywood Bowl blowout," 19 July 2019 The result is a film thatās almost sci-fi adjacent, and which clearly has a lot on its mind about how brainless, macho characterizations of manhood hurt everyone, and how violence perpetuates violence. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Jesse Eisenberg on the āaspirational and also absurdā manliness in his new movie," 12 July 2019 Photo: Mark Brown/Getty Images To state the obvious: Thereās a good chance this column is going to look brainless in a few weeks. — Jason Gay, WSJ, "Beautiful Schadenfreude for Patriots Haters," 10 Dec. 2018 The kids drink, smoke, say horrible things about women and make brainless mistakes. — Jason Gay, WSJ, "Jonah Hill Makes Directing Look Easy," 30 Oct. 2018 Based on the novels by Steve Alten, The Meg may be the Platonic ideal of a big, brainless summer movie: fun to watch and very easy to forget. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Jason Statham and a colossal shark canāt save The Meg from a lifeless existence," 9 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'brainless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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