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senseless(dictionary)

senseless (iou)



senseless adjective. M16.
[from SENSE noun + -LESS.]
Of a person etc.: without sensation, physically insentient; in a state of unconsciousness. M16.
Sun They were stripped and clubbed senseless.
b. Of a thing: incapable of sensation or perception. L16.
Incapable of feeling, lacking sensitivity or awareness. (Foll. by of.) Now rare or obsolete. M16.
Without sense or intelligence, stupid, silly, foolish. Also, without meaning or purpose, meaningless. L16.
D. Brewster She would not be so senseless as to accuse such men. S. Terkel I was in Vietnam. I saw the senseless waste of human beings. P. Roth His life did not come to a senseless end.
senselessly adverb L17.
senselessness noun L16.