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Webster 1913 Edition


Brainless

Brain′less

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Adj.
Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.
Brain′less-ness
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Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Brainless

BRA'INLESS

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Adj.
Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.

Definition 2024


brainless

brainless

English

Adjective

brainless (comparative more brainless, superlative most brainless)

  1. (not comparable) Having no brain.
  2. (comparable) Unintelligent, with little common sense.
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VI”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      "I don't mean all of your friendsonly a small proportionwhich, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunchthe insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, []!"

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