senseless

UK /ˈsɛnsləs/ US /ˈsɛnsləs/
adj 4

Definitions

adj

1

Without feeling or desire to work; deprived of sensation.

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

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; […]

2

Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.

What a senseless waste of money.

3

Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act.

The school shooting was a senseless act of violence.

Addressing the nation on Thursday, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala called the shooting “a senseless attack” and said “this Christmas will be unimaginably sad.”

4

Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement

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

[T]he King vvas obliged to qualify his grant, by eſtabliſhing betvveen the contending parties a rotation of ſeniority, each to take place alternately for a year, the ſurvivor to precede for his life the heir of the other, and ſo in perpetuum. A ſenſeleſs jumble, ſoon liquidated by a more egregious act of folly, the King vvith his ovvn hand crovvning the young Duke of VVarvvick King of the Iſle of VVight— […]

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