What's the difference between brainless and stupid?

Brainless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A fine period of passing is undone by a brainless gallop forwards by Kebe, who just knocks the ball into the nearest defender.
  • (2) We think of it as a "career path" for the beautiful and brainless.
  • (3) To speak metaphorically, we can opt for either brainless or mindless psychiatry, as Szasz proposed.
  • (4) Muscle proteins were quantified in the 1 M LiCl-soluble and distilled water-insoluble fraction of the eyeless, brainless, eviscerated and skinned carcass, as compared with a striated muscle sample from the same animal used as standard and processed in the same way as the whole carcass.
  • (5) And though it's good, solid, brainless fun, it's actually less colourful than the real story of the Lincoln County war.
  • (6) Since it's impossible to simultaneously sacrifice and worship a sacred cow, The Lone Ranger feels schizophrenic, a state of affairs that would be forgivable if it delivered as a postmodern comedy or as an exciting western or even as an exhilaratingly brainless piece of summer entertainment.
  • (7) After a period marked by one-sided emphasis on psychodynamics and social issues, or what could be called "brainless" psychiatry on account of its relative neglect of cerebral processes, we are witnessing an opposite trend towards extreme biologism or "mindless" psychiatry.
  • (8) These days, however, as no one will be surprised to hear, brainless things happen in Washington more often than not, and there's the usual parade of the usual suspects demanding that Keystone get built.
  • (9) The implantation of protocerebron and of optic lobes into brainless Spheroms remaining in C4 seems to restore premoult only with difficulty.
  • (10) It does need more big hospital "hubs" and fewer smaller hospitals, but that should not be the excuse for more brainless wrecking of what remains a phenomenal organisation – cheap, generally high quality and value-driven, as you find when you are inside it.
  • (11) Her husband – the narcissistic, brainless purveyor of tedious board games – probably didn’t pay her much mind in the week before the event.
  • (12) The author argues that neither brainless nor mindless psychiatry can do justice to the complexity of mental illness and to the treatment of patients.
  • (13) These were not brainless carnivores, in other words.
  • (14) The latter is neither mindless nor brainless but rather encompasses both the mind and the brain in its theoretical and practical consideration.
  • (15) We need all the support we can get to put a stop to this dangerous promotion of women as stupid slags, sexy sluts and brainless bimbos.

Stupid


Definition:

  • (a.) Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.
  • (a.) Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (2) In 1999, Kamprad admitted his past involvement with Nazism in a book about his life and asked for forgiveness for his "stupidity."
  • (3) Would I be stupid not to wait another six months or so, to get a 90% mortgage given the cons of Help to Buy?
  • (4) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
  • (5) "The whole thing was stupid, Donald called him at once to discuss it, he had such a go at him, I mean, fuck, it's a shame we didn't record it, he fucked him up good, had such a proper fucking go at him."
  • (6) @HunterFelt October 28, 2013 Ali Mason (@alimason) Reassuring to see the #redsox aren't the only ones who can find stupid ways to lose.
  • (7) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
  • (8) He must have had PR training – didn’t it stretch to not saying stupid stuff?
  • (9) I’d love to say it’s this big, machiavellian plan, but the main thing to blame is human stupidity,” says Phillip Adcock, author of Shoppology: The Science of Supermarket Shopping.
  • (10) Barack Obama today phoned the white policeman he said had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor in his own home and invited the officer to visit the White House as the president attempted to defuse a growing race row over the incident.
  • (11) It’s just one stupid statement after another.” Large crowds of protesters gathered outside the Gyumri base, where Permyakov is now being held, demanding that he be handed over to Armenian law-enforcement to ensure he is prosecuted locally.
  • (12) And then her drug use got harder, and more desperate, and then it wasn't funny any more; and then, when she was trying to clean up, she was dead, gone to join "the stupid club", as Kurt Cobain's mother described all the rock stars who end up dead at 27.
  • (13) You've got to have more than that, you've got to make them better players, because players aren't stupid.
  • (14) Ukip is exploiting the stupidity of ignorant anti-immigrant voters for electoral gain.
  • (15) I still have a few pints of gin and tonic before I go onstage but nothing stupid."
  • (16) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
  • (17) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
  • (18) I think that's a challenge all of us go through, whether it's a parent knowing they are going to have to die and leave their kids behind or it's a young person saying I haven't left my mark yet, I lived for no reason – but that's a stupid way of thinking because as Hazel says in the book there will come a day when Mozart isn't remembered so don't worry about it!
  • (19) The president should have directed the Justice Department to stop taking stupid points and petty appeals.” One reason the Justice Department pursued the habeas cases so hard was its client: the Pentagon.
  • (20) More from Behind the joke • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid • Holly Walsh: 'I build my comedy block-by-block like Lego'

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