senseless
AdjectiveSynonyms:
mindlessreasonlessinsensibleotiosepointlesspurposelesssuperfluouswastednitwittedsoft-wittedwitless
WordNet 3.0
Adjective (4)
- not marked by the use of reason“mindless violence”“reasonless hostility”“a senseless act”Synonyms: mindlessreasonless
- unresponsive to stimulation“he lay insensible where he had fallen”“drugged and senseless”Synonyms: insensible
- 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”Synonyms: otiosepointlesspurposelesssuperfluouswasted
- (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgmentSynonyms: nitwittedsoft-wittedwitless
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Senseless \Sense"less\, a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. [1913 Webster]
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
They were a senseless, stupid race. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] -- Sense"less*ly, adv. -- Sense"less*ness, n. [1913 Webster]