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- senselesse (obsolete)
From sense + -less. Compare Saterland Frisian sinloos (“senseless, foolish”).
senseless (comparative more senseless, superlative most senseless)
- Without feeling or desire to work; deprived of sensation.
- Synonyms: unconscious, insensible
The blow to his head rendered him senseless, he didn't awaken until he was in the ambulance.
1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 223:
That hoary man had spent his livelong age
In converse with the dead, who leave the stamp
Of ever-burning thoughts on many a page,
When they are gone into the senseless damp
Of graves; […]
- Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.
- Synonyms: pointless, meaningless
What a senseless waste of money.
- Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act.
The school shooting was a senseless act of violence.
- Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement
- Synonyms: unreasonable, unwise, stupid
He took senseless risks, not even aware of the danger he was in.
bereft of feeling
- Bulgarian: безчувствен (bg) (bezčuvstven)
- Danish: følelsesløs
- Finnish: tunnoton (fi)
- Galician: sen sentido
- German: empfindungslos, ohne Gefühl
- Hindi: भावहीन (bhāvhīn)
- Portuguese: insensível (pt)
- Russian: бесчу́вственный (ru) (besčúvstvennyj)
lacking meaning or purpose
- Bulgarian: безсмислен (bg) (bezsmislen)
- Danish: sanseløs
- Esperanto: sensenca
- Finnish: järjetön (fi), mieletön (fi), älytön (fi), älyvapaa (fi)
- Galician: sen razón
- German: sinnlos (de)
- Hindi: अर्थहीन (hi) (arthahīn), निरर्थक (hi) (nirarthak)
- Irish: gan chiall
- Italian: senza capo né coda
- Latvian: bezjēdzīgs
- Maori: koretake
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: meningsløs, meiningslaus
- Nynorsk: meiningslaus
- Plautdietsch: sennlooss, onveninftich
- Portuguese: absurdo (pt)
- Russian: бессмы́сленный (ru) (bessmýslennyj)
- Ukrainian: безглу́здий (uk) (bezhlúzdyj)
- (deprived of sensation): ageusia, analgesia, anosmia, blind, deaf, hypoesthesia, numbness, paralysis
- “senseless”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “senseless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.