What's the difference between mindless and windless?

Mindless


Definition:

  • (a.) Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
  • (a.) Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
  • (2) When people get together sometimes they forget their individual responsibility and maybe when you go home and watch it on television you are less proud.” Coates agreed with Wenger that it is best to turn a deaf ear to those mindless enough to sing that sort of song.
  • (3) From that day video games – the youngest and therefore the most misunderstood and feared entertainment medium – have struggled to shrug off the perception that they are violent, often mindless, occasionally sexist and fundamentally unconstructive.
  • (4) "Not one person has given any positive to his tenure of management, just kept mindlessly claiming he needs time.
  • (5) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
  • (6) The increasingly frequent murder of Nato trainers by the Afghans they are supposed to mentor has done as much to eradicate trust in the relationship between the Kabul government and its western backers as the sight of US marines videoed while urinating on the corpses of insurgents, or the mindless decision to burn Qur'ans at a US military base.
  • (7) To speak metaphorically, we can opt for either brainless or mindless psychiatry, as Szasz proposed.
  • (8) The architect of the RBCT called the new cull "mindless".
  • (9) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
  • (10) Last week you were saying the violence was understandable given the offensive film and this week you are trying to claim it was mindless," he wrote.
  • (11) This article describes a detailed model of how such "mindless" processes might lead to intelligent choices of strategies in one common situation: that in which people need to choose between stating a retrieved answer and using a backup strategy.
  • (12) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
  • (13) It was hypothesized that as overlearning leads to "mindlessness," the individual components of a task become relatively inaccessible to consciousness and therefore unavailable to serve as evidence of task competence.
  • (14) We are about to take this country backwards in droves through the mindless ideological bent of the Coalition .
  • (15) And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence," he said.
  • (16) As a letter in the Guardian from the Labour MP Peter Hain two days later put it: "Wednesday night's events were not mindless thuggery but organised political violence.
  • (17) Alex Song’s mindless red card near the end of the first half certainly made their task an easier one, but Croatia put the setback of their opening defeat to Brazil behind them with clinical ease.
  • (18) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
  • (19) "We are not on a mindless hunt for unique users," said Bailey.
  • (20) Hollywood blockbusters and TV dramas are saturated with mindless terrorists.

Windless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no wind; calm.
  • (a.) Wanting wind; out of breath.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Launches take place in the windless early-morning hours, when mists blanket the sweeping ranchlands.
  • (2) In the period to 2030, it could provide a flexible back-up for renewables, on windless or cloudy days.
  • (3) It’s kind of what I’m all about.” Kotsenburg’s jump was the high point of a sunny, windless day at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
  • (4) Synchronization of the swarming time of males was also favoured by warm windless weather.