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/ˈsɛnsləs/
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ˈsɛnsləs
Adjective
Without feeling or desire to work; deprived of sensation.
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The blow to his head rendered him senseless; he didn’t awaken until he was in the ambulance.
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That hoary man had spent his livelong age / In converse with the dead, who leave the stamp / Of ever-burning thoughts on many a page, / When they are gone into the senseless damp / Of graves; […]
Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.
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What a senseless waste of money.
Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act.
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The school shooting was a senseless act of violence.
Addressing the nation on Thursday, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala called the shooting “a senseless attack” and said “this Christmas will be unimaginably sad.”
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At the news conference, Crump called her killing “senseless on every level.”
Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement
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He took senseless risks, not even aware of the danger he was in.
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[T]he King vvas obliged to qualify his grant, by eſtabliſhing betvveen the contending parties a rotation of ſeniority, each to take place alternately for a year, the ſurvivor to precede for his life the heir of the other, and ſo in perpetuum. A ſenſeleſs jumble, ſoon liquidated by a more egregious act of folly, the King vvith his ovvn hand crovvning the young Duke of VVarvvick King of the Iſle of VVight— […]
Adjective
not marked by the use of reason
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mindless violence
reasonless hostility
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a senseless act
unresponsive to stimulation
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he lay insensible where he had fallen
drugged and senseless
serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
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otiose lines in a play
advice is wasted words
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a pointless remark
a life essentially purposeless
senseless violence
(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
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