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SENSELESS
nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless
(adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
insensible, senseless, out of it
(adjective) unresponsive to stimulation; “he lay insensible where he had fallen”; “drugged and senseless”
mindless, reasonless, senseless
(adjective) not marked by the use of reason; “mindless violence”; “reasonless hostility”; “a senseless act”
otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
senseless (comparative more senseless, superlative most senseless)
Without feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation
Synonyms: unconscious, insensible
Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense
Synonyms: pointless, meaningless
Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement
Synonyms: unreasonable, unwise, stupid
Source: Wiktionary
Sense"less, a.
Definition: 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"less*ly, adv.
– Sense"less*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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