Word Finder - senseless

definition

Without feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation

example

The blow to his head rendered him senseless, he didn't awaken until he was in the ambulance.

synonyms

• insensible
• unconscious

definition

Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense

example

What a senseless waste of money.

synonyms

• meaningless
• pointless

definition

Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement

example

He took senseless risks, not even aware of the danger he was in.

synonyms

• stupid
• unreasonable
• unwise

It has taken my whole life to stop the senseless wars.

What a senseless thing to say.

He was senseless; but I knew he wasn't drowned.

He repeatedly insists on the impossibility of senseless matter putting on sense.'

For decades, teams of three hardy fools had tried to knock each other senseless with high pressure fire hoses, while the spectators tried to escape the cross fire.

She'd cried herself senseless before falling into a sleep too heavy to bring her any real rest.

God being what He is, at once moral and all-powerful, the immoral life is doomed to overthrow, whether the immorality consist in grasping rapacity, proud self-aggrandizement, cruel exaction, exulting triumph or senseless idolatry.

Prince Andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying.

She only felt herself again completely borne away into this strange senseless world--so remote from her old world--a world in which it was impossible to know what was good or bad, reasonable or senseless.

Ostensibly a solemn revenge for the burning of Greek temples by Xerxes, it has been justified as a symbolical act calculated to impress usefully the imagination of the East, and condemned as a senseless and vainglorious work of destruction.

Only senseless things, lacking coherence, presented themselves one after another to Prince Andrew's mind.

Such a question cannot be put; it is senseless!

You had me worried senseless.

From the standpoint of the capitalist this would be a senseless and purposeless waste.

At last he was carried to his inn still laughing but almost senseless.

Students are forced to produce utterly senseless pieces of work about uninteresting topics.

In everything near and comprehensible he had only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and senseless.

We could not let this senseless tragedy fade away into the weathered pages of history.

Who fights the senseless destruction of our Mother Nature?

On the upside at least you do n't have to spend a couple of hours being bored senseless by me.

She was stumbling in a senseless daze when Bordeaux caught her in his arms.

The local people lived in great fear and suffering, bearing witness to unspeakable horror of senseless killings and torture.

That statement is a perfect example of hot-weather ' common sense ' which is actually quite senseless.

Her apparently senseless activity becomes harder to distinguish from the focused and purposeful traffic of the businessmen and women who brush past her.

The truly terrifying Tommy wants Rachel, wealth and the odd opportunity to beat people senseless.

On the upside at least you don't have to spend a couple of hours being bored senseless by me.

No sooner was that said than witness was knocked senseless to the ground.. ... .

Inside the cell they find a panting Krycek, and Dmitri laying on the floor in a corner, beaten senseless.

The giant blast wave hurled two of the German gunners from their towers, and they lay senseless on the crown of the dam.

For a moment only did I lose recollection; I fell senseless on the ground.

It seems senseless to try to penetrate behind to some idea of private meaning.

We hope you will join us in our fight to stamp out the senseless slaughter of billions of helpless insects across the world.

Dozens of windows were smashed during the senseless wrecking spree at Monteagle Primary, Burnham Road, Dagenham, on Saturday afternoon.

The magical papyri teem with strings of senseless and barbaric words which probably answer to what certain of the Fathers called the language of demons.

He is branded by historians as the Caligula of the East, who took a delight in imposing on his subjects a variety of senseless and capricious regulations, and persecuting different sections of them by cruel and arbitrary measures.

The Sudden Infant Death Organization is doing all that it can to help prevent these senseless deaths from occurring.

Faith is also trained in martial arts and is very efficient in rendering anyone who impedes her progress senseless.

Damage to Wernicke's area produces speech that is fluent and often rapid, but with relatively senseless content, many invented words, and word substitutions.

Stereotyped-Having a persistent, repetitive, and senseless quality.

Everything stopped on March 31, 1995, when the Selena biography came to a tragic and senseless end.

It was senseless to look elsewhere, as both had been present when Cynthia placed the small fragment in the cut glass enclosure.

Shipton leaned to his right and began to chip away at a large outcrop of ice directly above Dean, laughing as a loosened piece tumbled downward, striking Dean's exposed head, nearly knocking him senseless.

She dropped to the ground, senseless.

We order that the adherents of this faith be called Catholic Christians; we brand all the senseless followers of the other religions with the infamous name of heretics, and forbid their conventicles assuming the name of churches.

Erin at peace at last 22 May It was all so senseless.

Now a cop, Sean is assigned to the case and he and his partner are charged with unraveling the seemingly senseless crime.

But at the crowning moment of trial there are those who assert their belief that the woman who on her way to the field of Corrichie had uttered her wish to be a man, that she might know all the hardship and all the enjoyment of a soldier's life, riding forth "in jack and knapscull" - the woman who long afterwards was to hold her own for two days together without help of counsel against all the array of English law and English statesmanship, armed with irrefragable evidence and supported by the resentment of a nation - showed herself equally devoid of moral and of physical resolution; too senseless to realize the significance and too heartless to face the danger of a situation from which the simplest exercise of reason, principle or courage must have rescued the most unsuspicious and inexperienced of honest women who was not helplessly deficient in self-reliance and self-respect.

Our theory is, therefore, that the savage and senseless element in mythology is, for the most part, a legacy from ancestors of the civilized races who were in an intellectual state not higher than that of Australians, Bushmen, Red Indians, the lower races of South America, Mincopies, and other worse than barbaric peoples.

One soldier, in his fear, uttered the senseless cry, "Cut off!" that is so terrible in battle, and that word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic.

But feeling this to be senseless and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her.