senseless

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (4)

  1. not marked by the use of reason“mindless violence”“reasonless hostility”“a senseless act”Synonyms: mindlessreasonless
  2. unresponsive to stimulation“he lay insensible where he had fallen”“drugged and senseless”Synonyms: insensible
  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”Synonyms: otiosepointlesspurposelesssuperfluouswasted
  4. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgmentSynonyms: nitwittedsoft-wittedwitless
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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]

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