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Definition of Senseless

1. Adjective. Not marked by the use of reason. "A senseless act"

2. Adjective. Unresponsive to stimulation. "Drugged and senseless"

3. Adjective. Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being. "Senseless violence"

4. Adjective. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment.

Definition of Senseless

1. a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

Definition of Senseless

1. Adjective. Bereft of feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation; unconscious; insensible. ¹

2. Adjective. Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense; pointless; meaningless. ¹

3. Adjective. Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement; unreasonable; unwise; stupid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Senseless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Senseless

sense of right and wrong sense of shame sense of smell sense of taste sense of the meeting sense of touch sense organ sense organs sense strand sense strands

sensed senseful sensei senseis sensel senseless (current term) senselessly senselessness senselessnesses sensels

sensemaking sensery senses senses of humor senses of humour senshuraku sensibilia sensibilise sensibilities sensibility

Literary usage of Senseless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"The charm and venom which they drunk Their Wood with secret filth infected hath, Being diffused through the senseless trunk, That through the great ..."

2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... that things are dispensed by one regular and methodical, but unknowing senseless nature ; yet it seems to have been chiefly asserted by certain spurious ..."

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