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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. not marked by the use of reason;
- Example: "mindless violence"
- Example: "reasonless hostility"
- Example: "a senseless act"
[syn: mindless, reasonless, senseless]

2. unresponsive to stimulation;
- Example: "he lay insensible where he had fallen"
- Example: "drugged and senseless"
[syn: insensible, senseless]

3. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
- Example: "otiose lines in a play"
- Example: "advice is wasted words"
- Example: "a pointless remark"
- Example: "a life essentially purposeless"
- Example: "senseless violence"
[syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]

4. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment;
[syn: nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Senseless \Sense"less\, a.
   Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without
   sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise;
   unreasonable.
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         You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless
         things.                                  --Shak.
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         The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
                                                  --Shak.
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         The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows.
                                                  --Rowe.
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         They were a senseless, stupid race.      --Swift.
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         They would repent this their senseless perverseness
         when it would be too late.               --Clarendon.
   [1913 Webster] -- Sense"less*ly, adv. -- Sense"less*ness,
   n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

senseless
    adj 1: not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence";
           "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn:
           mindless, reasonless, senseless]
    2: unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had
       fallen"; "drugged and senseless" [syn: insensible,
       senseless]
    3: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
       "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a
       pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless";
       "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless,
       purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
    4: (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or
       judgment [syn: nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted,
       witless]