senseless
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈsɛnsləs/
:
insensato
- Her senseless remarks during the meeting led to confusion among the team members.
- senseless violence
- a senseless act
- a senseless death
He says be content to appear senseless and foolish in externals.
- He says be content to appear senseless and foolish in externals.
- Millions of young men died for a senseless, stupid war.
- Violence is like such a senseless, mindless thing.
- I couldn't bear hearing about senseless gun violence and needless loss of life.
- We're seeing decrease in senseless police killings.
- We go back to the same culprit, bad laws and tons of senseless regulations.
- And he said that any hopes for change were senseless.
- I'm worried about the senseless slaughter of animals for no reason or, or the way they're killed.
- I think a lot of it is, is meaningless, senseless stuff that we don't need to be involved in.
- And actually just in a basic human level, ask the question of why are we doing all this senseless killing?
- So you want to be very aware that when you present something to the mind, if it doesn't make sense, it becomes senseless.
- And when it happened, I just, yeah, it just hit me the same way that Amy Winehouse hit me, you know, just because it felt so senseless.
- So Kim Stanley Robinson says they'll think it's a senseless, naive idea.
Examples
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This whole war is senseless anyway.
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No clear reason, just these senseless attacks.
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"So much of it seems so senseless, like words just lying around waiting to be picked up."
Fiction book (1998) -
Speaker, Nottingham is devastated by the senseless attacks that took place on our streets yesterday.
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All the senseless running around drains your energy.
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For many in the mainstream, this approach to life may seem unfathomable and senseless.
Academic text (2013) -
We at IBC are shocked and appalled by this senseless tragedy.
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So Kim Stanley Robinson says they'll think it's a senseless, naive idea.
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The decision to hold the event during a snowstorm was completely senseless.
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Everyone agreed that the arguments presented were senseless and did not address the real issues.
Synonyms
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1.3
Not showing good sense and making unwise choices
226
5.1
Having no meaning, value, or purpose
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3.5
Not doing anything useful
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4.8
Does not make sense or follow clear reasons
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4.1
Not thinking or paying attention before acting
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5.5
Not making sense or having any meaning
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7.5
Very silly and having no real meaning
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3.5
Very stupid and not using common sense
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3.6
Not having a clear goal or plan
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6.8
Not showing good sense or judgment
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5.3
Not done for any clear reason or useful result
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8.6
Without a good reason or explanation
Acting very silly and not thinking clearly
Useless and not needed
Not very smart and likely to make poor choices
A person who is slow to understand and easily fooled
Antonyms
How Sensible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Senseless comes from sense, from the Latin sensus which means 'feeling' or 'understanding', plus the ending -less meaning 'without', so an action that is senseless is like being 'without sense' — foolish, unreasonable, or pointless.