brainless

English

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

brainless (comparative more brainless, superlative most brainless)

(not comparable) Having no brain.
(comparable) Unintelligent, with little common sense.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 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, […]!"

having no brain

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)

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