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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Senseless \Sense"less\, adjective 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. --Shak.
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. --Shak.
The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. --Rowe.
They were a senseless, stupid race. --Swift.
They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. --Clarendon. -- {Sense"less*ly}, adverb -- {Sense"less*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
senseless
adjective
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: lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: {pointless}, {purposeless}]
4: (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment [syn: {nitwitted}, {soft-witted}, {witless}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
295 Moby Thesaurus words for "senseless": abiotic, abnormal, absonant, absurd, aimless, amorphous, anesthetized, apish, asinine, asleep, azoic, batty, befooled, beguiled, benumbed, bereft of reason, besotted, brainless, brainsick, buffoonish, capricious, casual, cataleptic, catatonic, cockeyed, cold, comatose, contradictory, contrary to reason, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dead, deadened, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, designless, desultory, dippy, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, disoriented, dispersed, disproportionate, distraught, dizzy, doped, doting, drugged, dumb, empty, empty-headed, erratic, exanimate, fallacious, fatuitous, fatuous, faulty, fitful, flaky, flawed, flighty, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, formless, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, garbled, goofy, gratuitous, gulled, half-conscious, hallucinated, haphazard, headless, hit-or-miss, idiotic, ignorant, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, illogical, imbecile, imbecilic, immethodical, impolitic, importless, imprudent, inadvisable, inane, inanimate, inanimated, inauthentic, inchoate, incoherent, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderate, inconsistent, indiscreet, indiscriminate, inept, inert, inexpedient, infatuated, injudicious, insane, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insignificant, invalid, irrational, irregular, kooky, lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, lifeless, loco, loony, loose, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, maudlin, mazed, meaningless, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless, misadvised, misguided, misshapen, moon-struck, moronic, mute, myopic, narcotized, nirvanic, nitwitted, non compos, non compos mentis, nonconnotative, nonconscious, nondenotative, nonliving, nonscientific, nonsensical, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, not all there, not bright, not following, not right, null, numbed, nutty, oblivious, odd, of little brain, of unsound mind, off, orderless, out, out cold, out of it, paralogical, pea-brained, phatic, pin-brained, planless, pointless, promiscuous, psycho, purportless, purposeless, queer, random, reasonless, reckless, ridiculous, sappy, scrambled, screwy, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, semiconscious, sentimental, shapeless, shortsighted, sick, silly, slackminded, slackwitted, soulless, spaced out, spasmodic, sporadic, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, stoned, straggling, straggly, strange, strung out, stunned, stupid, surd, systemless, tetched, thoughtless, touched, trinal, unadvised, unanimated, unarranged, unauthentic, unaware, unbalanced, unclassified, unconnected, unconscious, unconsidered, undirected, undiscerning, unfeeling, unforeseeing, ungifted, ungraded, unhinged, unimportant, unintellectual, unintelligent, unjoined, unmeaning, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unsane, unscientific, unseeing, unsensible, unsettled, unsignificant, unsorted, unsound, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, ununiform, unwise, unwitty, vague, wacky, wandering, weak-minded, wet, wild, without reason, witless, wooden, zonked, zonked out
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