Causeless

Definitions: Causeless

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".

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".

Date "causeless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Causeless

Synonyms: fortuitous (adj), reasonless (adj), uncaused (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Chance 2	Adjective: casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible; unintentional.
Intention	Random, indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected; aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless; without purpose.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Causeless

English words defined with "causeless": Causelessness ♦ fortuitous ♦ reasonless ♦ Sideration ♦ uncaused. (references)

Specialty definitions using "causeless": Causes. (references)

"Causeless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Causeless" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	3	202,518

Language		Translations for "causeless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pashkak (uncaused, wanton). (various references)

Arabic		‏بلا مبرر, ‏بلا سبب (gratuitous), ‏بدون سبب. (various references)

Bulgarian		необоснован (baseless, idle, ill founded, invalid, precarious, slender, unbacked, unfounded, unsound), безпричинен (gratuitous, uncaused, ungrounded, wanton). (various references)

Chinese		� 缘�"�. (various references)

Czech		bezdùvodný (baseless, gratuitous, groundless, unfounded, ungrounded, unreasonable). (various references)

Farsi		بی هدف , بی سبب (Uncaused). (various references)

French		sans motif, sans justification, sans cause. (various references)

German		grundlos (abysmal, baseless, bottomless, causaleless, causelessly, for no reason, groundless, motiveless, unfounded, unfoundedly, ungrounded, unmotivated, unprovoked). (various references)

Greek		άνευ αιτίασ. (various references)

Hebrew		ללא סיב�" (gratuitous), בלתי מבוסס (ill founded, invalid). (various references)

Hungarian		indokolatlan (gratuitous, undue, unmotivated, unprovoked, wanton). (various references)

Korean		우발. (various references)

Manx		neuoyrdagh, gyn cooish (briefless, unduly), anoyral (improper). (various references)

Pig Latin		auselesscay

Portuguese		sem razão (uncaused, unfounded, unreasonable), sem motivo (uncaused, unprovoked), injusto (cammed, inequitable, one sided, partial loss, uncharitable, unconscionable, undeserved, undue, unfair, unjust, unrighteous, wrong, wrongful). (various references)

Romanian		fãrã motiv (for no reason, reasonless, wantonly), fãrã cauzã. (various references)

Russian		необоснованный (baseless, ill founded, ill-founded, invalid, offset, precarious, unfounded, ungrounded, Unsubstantiated), беспричинный (gratuitous, groundless, uncaused). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bezrazložan. (various references)

Spanish		sin causa (uncaused, without reason), ocasional (casual, casually, occasional, occasionally). (various references)

Swedish		utan orsak, grundlös (baseless, groundless, idle, ill founded, unfounded). (various references)

Thai		ที่ปราศจากเหตุผล. (various references)

Turkish		sebepsiz (gratis, gratuitous, groundless, innocent of reason, unprovoked, wanton, without any reason), rastlantı sonucu olan (accidental), nedensiz (causelessly, gratuitous, innocent of reason, unsubstantiated). (various references)

Ukranian		необгрунтований (baseless, groundless, ill founded, invalid, precarious, undefended, unfounded, ungrounded, unwarranted), безпідставний (baseless, footless, ill founded, insupportable, rootless), безпричинний (gratuitous, groundless, uncaused). (various references)

Vietnamese		vô cớ (gratuitous), không có lý do (motiveless, ungrounded, unmotivated, unmotived). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 2
Latin	405	Vulgate	Sicut avis ad alia transvolans et passer quolibet vadens sic maledictum frustra prolatum in quempiam superveniet
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For as a brid to heye thingus ouerfleende, and a sparewe whider hym list goende; so curs in veyn spoken in to sum man shal comen ouer.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 2
Cebuano	¶ Maingon sa gorion sa iyang pagpanaw, maingon sa ayaw sa iyang paglupad, Mao man ang pagpanghimaraut nga walay gipasikaran dili matuman.
Croatian	Kao vrabac kad prhne i lastavica kad odleti, tako se i bezrazložna kletva ne ispunja.
Danish	Som en Spurv i Fart, som en Svale i Flugt så rammer ej Banden mod sagesløs Mand.
Dutch	Gelijk de mus is tot wegzweven, gelijk een zwaluw tot vervliegen, alzo zal een vloek, die zonder oorzaak is, niet komen.
Finnish	Kuin liitävä lintu, kuin lentävä pääskynen on aiheeton kirous: ei se toteen käy.
French	Comme l`oiseau s`échappe, comme l`hirondelle s`envole, Ainsi la malédiction sans cause n`a point d`effet.
German	Wie ein Vogel dahinfährt und eine Schwalbe fliegt, also ein unverdienter Fluch trifft nicht.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Seperti burung terbang dan melayang-layang di udara, begitu juga kutukan tak bisa kena pada orang yang tak bersalah.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Seperti burung pipit terbang ke sana ke mari dan seperti burung layang-layang terbang berkeliling, demikianpun kutuk yang tiada dengan semena-mena itu tak boleh terkena.
Italian	Come il passero che svolazza, come la rondine che vola, così una maledizione senza motivo non avverr� .
Maori	¶ He pera i te manu e rererere noa ana, i te waroa i ona rerenga te kanga pokanoa; e kore e whakatau.
Norwegian	Som spurven i fart, som svalen i flukt, slik er det med en uforskyldt forbannelse - den rammer ikke.
Portuguese	Como o pássaro no seu vaguear, como a andorinha no seu voar, assim a maldição sem causa não encontra pouso.
Rumanian	Cum sare vrabia kncoace wi kncolo wi cum sboarq rkndunica, awa nu nimerewte blestemul nekntemeiat. -
Russian	лБЛ ЧПТП�'ЕК ЧУ� ПТИОЕФ, ЛБЛ МБУФПЮЛБ ХМЕФЙФ, ФБЛ ОЕЪБУМХЦЕООПЕ � ТПЛМСФЙЕ ОЕ У�'Х�"ЕФУС.
Swedish	Såsom sparven far sin kos, och såsom svalan flyger bort, så far en oförtjänt förbannelse förbi.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Causeless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caseless, Casuelles. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-s-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: euclases.
	-2 letters: asceses, classes, clauses, euclase, useless.
	-3 letters: caules, causes, ceases, cesses, clause, cusses, easels, lasses, leases, sauces, scales.
	-4 letters: alecs, ascus, asses, cases, casus, cauls, cause, cease, class, clues, easel, eases, esses, laces, lases, lease, luces, sales, sauce, sauls, scale, seals, seels, slues.
	-5 letters: aces, alec, alee, ales, case, caul, cees, cels, cess, clue.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-s-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: secularises, superscales.
	+3 letters: casualnesses, superclasses, underclasses.
	+4 letters: callousnesses, carefulnesses, curablenesses, excusableness, factualnesses, substanceless, superspecials, tactfulnesses, uncleannesses.
	+5 letters: circularnesses, culpablenesses, fancifulnesses, glaucousnesses, gracefulnesses, peacefulnesses, subadolescents, subspecializes, subspecialties, unsociableness, watchfulnesses.
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