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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Causeless \Cause"less\, adjective
1. Self-originating; uncreated.
2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless.
My fears are causeless and ungrounded. --Denham.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Causeless \Cause"less\, adverb Without cause or reason.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
causeless
adjective
1: having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless, causeless murder"; "a causeless war that never had an aim"; "an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change" [syn: {reasonless}]
2: having no cause or apparent cause; "a causeless miracle"; "fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune"; "we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times" [syn: {fortuitous}, {uncaused}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "causeless": accidental, adventitious, aimless, aleatory, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, designless, destinal, dicey, driftless, dysteleological, fatal, fatidic, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, iffy, incidental, indeterminate, indiscriminate, inexplicable, mindless, promiscuous, purposeless, random, risky, stochastic, stray, unaccountable, uncaused, undetermined, undirected, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unmotivated, unpredictable
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