[syn: causeless, fortuitous, uncaused]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Causeless \Cause"less\, adv.
Without cause or reason.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Causeless \Cause"less\, a.
1. Self-originating; uncreated.
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2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless.
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My fears are causeless and ungrounded. --Denham.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
causeless
adj 1: having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless,
causeless murder"; "a causeless war that never had an
aim"; "an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change"
[syn: causeless, reasonless]
2: having no cause or apparent cause; "a causeless miracle";
"fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune"; "we
cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated
to the times" [syn: causeless, fortuitous, uncaused]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "causeless":
accidental, adventitious, aimless, aleatory, casual, chance,
chancy, contingent, designless, destinal, dicey, driftless,
dysteleological, fatal, fatidic, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard,
iffy, incidental, indeterminate, indiscriminate, inexplicable,
mindless, promiscuous, purposeless, random, risky, stochastic,
stray, unaccountable, uncaused, undetermined, undirected,
unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unmotivated,
unpredictable