senseless

[Sense·less]

Senseless things have no meaning you can't easily explain why they happen. Senseless people, on the other hand, are simply unconscious.

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Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

Adjective S.
(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

Adjective S.
unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"

Adjective S.
lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"

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


a.
Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.


Senseless

Sense"less, a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things.
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows.
They were a senseless, stupid race.
They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late.
--- Sense"less*ly, adv. -- Sense"less*ness, n.

Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

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Usage Examples

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

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