senseless (adj.)

  1. not marked by the use of reason; mindless violence; reasonless hostility; a senseless act

    [ Syn: mindless , reasonless ]

  2. unresponsive to stimulation; he lay insensible where he had fallen; drugged and senseless

    [ Syn: insensible ]

  3. 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 , superfluous , wasted ]

  4. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

    [ Syn: nitwitted , soft-witted , witless ]

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