senseless
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From sense + -less. Compare Saterland Frisian sinloos (“senseless, foolish”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
senseless (comparative more senseless, superlative most senseless)
- Without feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation.
- 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, OCLC 1000449192, page 223:
- 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; […]
- The blow to his head rendered him senseless, he didn't awaken until he was in the ambulance.
- Synonyms: unconscious, insensible
- Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.
- What a senseless waste of money.
- Synonyms: pointless, meaningless
- Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act.
- The school shooting was a senseless act of violence.
- Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement
- He took senseless risks, not even aware of the danger he was in.
- Synonyms: unreasonable, unwise, stupid
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
bereft of feeling
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bereft of consciousness
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lacking meaning or purpose
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without consideration
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See alsoEdit
- (deprived of sensation): ageusia, analgesia, anosmia, blind, deaf, hypoesthesia, numbness, paralysis
ReferencesEdit
- senseless in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- senseless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913