BRAINLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brainless mean? 

• BRAINLESS (adjective)
  The adjective BRAINLESS has 1 sense:

1. not using intelligence

  Familiarity information: BRAINLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAINLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not using intelligence

Synonyms:

brainless; headless

Similar:

stupid; unintelligent (lacking intelligence)

 Context examples 

You cannot conceive in your mind how stubborn and brainless they are.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Surely it was more likely that a brainless creature, acting solely by vague predatory instinct, would give up the chase when I disappeared, and, after a pause of astonishment, would wander away in search of some other prey?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The couple were thus revealed to me clearly: both removed their cloaks, and there was 'the Varens,' shining in satin and jewels,—my gifts of course,—and there was her companion in an officer's uniform; and I knew him for a young roue of a vicomte—a brainless and vicious youth whom I had sometimes met in society, and had never thought of hating because I despised him so absolutely.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Both were agreed that the monsters were practically brainless, that there was no room for reason in their tiny cranial cavities, and that if they have disappeared from the rest of the world it was assuredly on account of their own stupidity, which made it impossible for them to adapt themselves to changing conditions.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)