brainless

English

Etymology

From Middle English braynles; equivalent to brain +‎ -less.

Adjective

brainless (comparative more brainless, superlative most brainless)

1. (not comparable) Having no brain.
2. (comparable) Unintelligent, with little common sense.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     "I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, […]!"

Translations

having no brain

• Armenian: անխելք (hy) (anxelkʿ)
• Bengali: মস্তিষ্কহীন (môstishkôhin)
• Finnish: aivoton (fi)
• German: hirnlos (de)
• Greek: ανεγκέφαλος (el) m (anegkéfalos)

• Kazakh: мисыз (mïsız), ми жоқ (mï joq)
• Lithuanian: besmegenis
• Maori: rorokore
• Persian: بی‌مغز‎‎ (bi-mağz)
• Russian: безмо́зглый (ru) (bezmózglyj)

unintelligent; having little or no common sense

• Bengali: মস্তিষ্কহীন (môstishkôhin)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 冇腦, 冇脑 (mou⁵ nou⁵)

  Mandarin: 瞎頭子 (zh), 瞎头子 (zh) (xiātóuzi), 無頭腦的 (zh), 无头脑的 (zh) (wútóunǎo de)

• Finnish: aivoton (fi)
• French: sans cervelle
• German: gedankenlos (de), einfältig (de), hirnlos (de)
• Greek: ανεγκέφαλος (el) m (anegkéfalos), άμυαλος (el) m (ámyalos), ανόητος (el) m (anóitos)

• Japanese: 頭が悪い (ja) (あたまがわるい, atama ga warui)
• Kazakh: мисыз (mïsız), ми жоқ (mï joq)
• Lithuanian: besmegenis
• Maori: rorokore
• Persian: بی‌مغز‎‎ (bi-mağz)
• Portuguese: descerebrado
• Russian: безмо́зглый (ru) (bezmózglyj)
• Spanish: descerebrado (es)

Anagrams

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