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English Dictionary: senseless	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for senseless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
senseless adj not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" Synonym(s): mindless, reasonless, senseless unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless" Synonym(s): insensible, senseless 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" Synonym(s): otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment Synonym(s): nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Senseless \Sense"less\, a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. --Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. --Shak. The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. --Rowe. They were a senseless, stupid race. --Swift. They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. --Clarendon. --- {Sense"lessly}, adv. -- {Sense"lessness}, n.