Antonyms of adj mindless

5 senses of mindless

Sense 1
mindless -- (lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being; "the shrieking of the mindless wind")

INDIRECT (VIA meaningless) -> meaningful -- (having a meaning or purpose; "a meaningful explanation"; "a meaningful discussion"; "a meaningful pause")

Sense 2
mindless -- (requiring little mental effort; "mindless tasks")

INDIRECT (VIA nonintellectual) -> intellectual -- (appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature")

Sense 3
unmindful (vs. mindful), forgetful, mindless -- (not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw)


Sense 4
asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous -- (devoid of intelligence)

INDIRECT (VIA foolish) -> wise -- (having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment")

Sense 5
mindless, reasonless, senseless -- (not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act")

INDIRECT (VIA unreasonable) -> reasonable, sensible -- (showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person")

Similarity of adj mindless

5 senses of mindless

Sense 1
mindless -- (lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being; "the shrieking of the mindless wind")
       => meaningless (vs. meaningful), nonmeaningful -- (having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation")

Sense 2
mindless -- (requiring little mental effort; "mindless tasks")
       => nonintellectual (vs. intellectual) -- (not intellectual)

Sense 3
unmindful (vs. mindful), forgetful, mindless -- (not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw)
       => amnesic, amnesiac -- (suffering from a partial loss of memory)

Sense 4
asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous -- (devoid of intelligence)
       => foolish (vs. wise) -- (devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision")

Sense 5
mindless, reasonless, senseless -- (not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act")
       => unreasonable (vs. reasonable) -- (not reasonable; not showing good judgment)

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