'Senseless' definitions:
Definition of 'senseless'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn: mindless, reasonless, senseless]
adjective
Unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless" [syn: insensible, senseless]
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" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
adjective
(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment [syn: nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless]
Definition of 'Senseless'
From: GCIDE
- Senseless \Sense"less\, a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. [1913 Webster]
- You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
- They were a senseless, stupid race. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] -- {Sense"less*ly}, adv. -- {Sense"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'senseless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abiotic,
- abnormal,
- absonant,
- absurd,
- aimless,
- amorphous,
- anesthetized,
- apish,
- asinine,
- asleep,
- azoic,
- batty,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- benumbed,
- bereft of reason,
- besotted,
- brainless,
- brainsick,
- buffoonish,
- capricious,
- casual,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- cockeyed,
- cold,
- comatose,
- contradictory,
- contrary to reason,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- dead,
- deadened,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- designless,
- desultory,
- dippy,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- disoriented,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- distraught,
- dizzy,
- doped,
- doting,
- drugged,
- dumb,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- erratic,
- exanimate,
- fallacious,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- faulty,
- fitful,
- flaky,
- flawed,
- flighty,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- garbled,
- goofy,
- gratuitous,
- gulled,
- half-conscious,
- hallucinated,
- haphazard,
- headless,
- hit-or-miss,
- idiotic,
- ignorant,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-contrived,
- ill-devised,
- ill-gauged,
- ill-judged,
- illogical,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- immethodical,
- impolitic,
- importless,
- imprudent,
- inadvisable,
- inane,
- inanimate,
- inanimated,
- inauthentic,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconclusive,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderate,
- inconsistent,
- indiscreet,
- indiscriminate,
- inept,
- inert,
- inexpedient,
- infatuated,
- injudicious,
- insane,
- insensate,
- insensible,
- insensitive,
- insentient,
- insignificant,
- invalid,
- irrational,
- irregular,
- kooky,
- lackbrained,
- lean-minded,
- lean-witted,
- lifeless,
- loco,
- loony,
- loose,
- ludicrous,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- maudlin,
- mazed,
- meaningless,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- mindless,
- misadvised,
- misguided,
- misshapen,
- moon-struck,
- moronic,
- mute,
- myopic,
- narcotized,
- nirvanic,
- nitwitted,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- nonconnotative,
- nonconscious,
- nondenotative,
- nonliving,
- nonscientific,
- nonsensical,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- not all there,
- not bright,
- not following,
- not right,
- null,
- numbed,
- nutty,
- oblivious,
- odd,
- of little brain,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- orderless,
- out,
- out cold,
- out of it,
- paralogical,
- pea-brained,
- phatic,
- pin-brained,
- planless,
- pointless,
- promiscuous,
- psycho,
- purportless,
- purposeless,
- queer,
- random,
- reasonless,
- reckless,
- ridiculous,
- sappy,
- scrambled,
- screwy,
- self-annulling,
- self-contradictory,
- self-refuting,
- semiconscious,
- sentimental,
- shapeless,
- shortsighted,
- sick,
- silly,
- slackminded,
- slackwitted,
- soulless,
- spaced out,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- stoned,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- strange,
- strung out,
- stunned,
- stupid,
- surd,
- systemless,
- tetched,
- thoughtless,
- touched,
- trinal,
- unadvised,
- unanimated,
- unarranged,
- unauthentic,
- unaware,
- unbalanced,
- unclassified,
- unconnected,
- unconscious,
- unconsidered,
- undirected,
- undiscerning,
- unfeeling,
- unforeseeing,
- ungifted,
- ungraded,
- unhinged,
- unimportant,
- unintellectual,
- unintelligent,
- unjoined,
- unmeaning,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unphilosophical,
- unreasonable,
- unreasoning,
- unreflecting,
- unreflective,
- unsane,
- unscientific,
- unseeing,
- unsensible,
- unsettled,
- unsignificant,
- unsorted,
- unsound,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- untalented,
- unthinking,
- unthoughtful,
- ununiform,
- unwise,
- unwitty,
- vague,
- wacky,
- wandering,
- weak-minded,
- wet,
- wild,
- without reason,
- witless,
- wooden,
- zonked,
- zonked out