Senseless

Definition: Senseless

Senseless

Adjective

1. Not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act".

2. Unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless".

3. Lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence".

4. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "senseless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Senseless

Absurdity

Adjective: absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-contradictory; macaronic, punning.

Imbecility Folly

Foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept; maudlin.

Physical Insensibility

Adjective: insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.

Unmeaningness

Adjective: unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense.

Crosswords: Senseless

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing in the horror section (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

Superior intelligence and senseless cruelty just do not go together (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what's being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

I must cease this senseless sucking (Rocko's Modern Life; writing credit: Geoff Atkinson)

Because, after 25 years of building a home and raising a family and all the senseless pain that we have inflicted on each other, I'm damned if I'm going to stand here and have you tell me you're in love with somebody else (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

Senseless (1962)

Pimple's Senseless Censoring (1917)

Senseless Acts of Video (2000)

One Senseless Act: The Khamisa Story (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Another Senseless Killing (reference)

• Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre: Senseless Cruelty & Other Comedies! (reference)

• Empire of the Senseless (reference)

• Making Sense of the Senseless (reference)

• Random Acts of Senseless Violence (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Senseless (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Jean Valjean found himself, with Marius still senseless, in a sort of long underground passage

Under the canvas, Grampa was awake, his head sticking out, but his eyes were drugged and watery and still senseless.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Senseless

Senseless

Expression using "senseless": senseless remark. Additional references.

Ending with "senseless": common-senseless.

Albanian

i pandjenjë (cold, cold-hearted, insensate, unconscious), i pakuptim (absurd, empty, inane, insignificant, meaningless, pointless, unnamed, vacuous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاقد الوعي (cold, inanimate, lifeless, suspended, unconscious), ‏فاقد الادراك, ‏فارغ (barren, blank, empty, flatulent, hollow, idle, inane, leisure, meaningless, pointless, silly, stupid, vacuous, vain, windy), ‏مغمى عليه (unconscious), ‏لا معنى له (incongruous, meaningless, unmeaning), ‏غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, rum, singular, strange, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), ‏أخرق (awkward, bungling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, impolitic, left handed, lubberly, lump, mad, maladroit, meaningless, nincompoop, oafish, ponderous, preposterous, shy, uncouth, ungainly, unhappy, wooden). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), в безсъзнание (comatose, insensate, out, unconscious), неразумен (extravagant, impolitic, indiscreet, injudicious, insensate, irrational, reasonless, thoughtless, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unwise), безсмислен (absurd, aimless, futile, inane, insensate, inutile, meaningless, mindless, needless, nonsense, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, purposeless, sorry, stupid, tomfool, unmeaning, vacuous, vain), безчувствен (harsh, indurate, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, stockish, stolid, torpid, unfeeling). (various references)

Chinese 

無知覺 . (various references)

Czech

zbyteèný (false, futile, good for nothing, gratuitous, needless, unnecessary, useless, wasted, wasteful), v bezvìdomí (unconscious), nesmyslný (absurd, mindful, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, unreasonable), absurdní (absurd, farcical, laughable, preposterous, tomfool). (various references)

Danish

foelelsesloes, bevidstloes. (various references)

Dutch

gevoellos, bewusteloos (unconscious). (various references)

Farsi 

احمقانه (Highland, Infatuate, Insane, Puerile, Silly, Spoony), احمق (Asinine, Cockeyed, Cockscomb, Daft, Dense, Dopey, Dult, Fool, Gawky, Gosling, Hick, Inane, Loggerhead, Loony, Natural, Nincompoop, Noodle, Sawney, Simpleton, Sot, Spoony, Stupid, Sucker, Unmeaning), بیمعنی (Nonsense, Vacuous), بیحس (Callous, Impassive, Insensate, Insensible, Insensitive, Numb, Obtuse, Unfeeling). (various references)

Finnish

tolkuton (confused, unintelligible), tiedoton (unconscious), tajuton (insensible, unconscious), päätön (absurd, foolish, headless, mad), mieletön (crazy, foolish, out of one's senses), järjetön (absurd, irrational, nonsensical, unreasonable). (various references)

French

stupide, sans connaissance. (various references)

German

sinnlos (blind, desperate, forlorn, futile, meaningless, pointless, purposeless, self-defeating, senselessly, unprofitable, useless), bewusstlos (cold, insensible, nonsentient, senselessly, unconscious, under). (various references)

Greek 

παράλογοσ (absonant, absurd, illogical, irrational, preposterous, reasonless, unconscionable, unreasonable), παράλογος (absurd, misguided), ανόητοσ (blithering, daft, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, idiot, inane, inept, insensate, insipient, knighterrantry, ninny, nitwit, nonsensical, sappy, silly, slap happy, unwise, witless), ανόητος (nonsensical, silly), αναίσθητοσ (callous, cold blooded, impassible, insensate, insensitive, insentient, unconscious, unfeeling). (various references)

Hebrew 

חסר תבונה (indiscreet, stupid), חסר דעה (ament, fool, madman, silly, witless), טפשי (anserine, dim witted, foolish, silly, stupid, thickheaded, witless). (various references)

Hungarian

öntudatlan (insensible, unconscious, unwitting). (various references)

Italian

privo di senso (nonsensical), privo di conoscenza, insensibile privo di sensi, insensato (inane), inanimato (inanimate, insensate, lifeless), assurdo (absurd, absurdity, nonsense, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous, ungodly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

由無き (absurd, meaningless), 意識不明 (unconscious), ぐうぐう寝ちゃう (accomplice, approximately, cohort, completely exhausted, dead tired, enervated, fast, fast asleep, firmly, flabby, flexible, hanging around, hesitatingly, indecisiveness, limp, lolling, more, much, noticeably, Okinawan fortress, pulpy, remarkably, sloppy, slowly, soft, soppy, sound asleep, sound of rinsing one's mouth, splat!, steadily, tardily, tired, to be unsteady, to fall sound asleep, to reel, to shake, to stray from the right path, turning round and round). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぐったり (completely exhausted, dead tired, limp), いしきふめい (unconscious), よしなき (absurd, meaningless). (various references)

Manx

meeresoonagh (illogical, incoherent, preposterous), meecheeallagh, gyn oyr (groundless, unduly, unfounded, wanton, without reason), gyn enney (comatose, incommunicado, unidentified), gyn ennaghtyn (callous, unfeelingly), bouyranagh (abstract, stupid), bolvaneagh (foolish, silly, stupid). (various references)

Pig Latin

enselesssay.(various references)

Portuguese

sem sentidos (insensible, kill-time, unconscious), sem sentido (kill-time, meaningless, nonsensical, unmeaning), inanimado (hard-hearted, inanimate, insensate, insentient, kill-time, lifeless, spiritless), disparatado (absurd, blundering, crack-brained, crazy, foolish, hard-hearted, inept, insensate, irrational, kill-time, nonsensical, preposterous, screwy), desmaiado (exanimate, kill-time, unconscious). (various references)

Romanian

stupid (doltish, dull, dull-witted, foolish, foolishly, Goosey, idiotic, idiotical, idle, inane, inept, insipid, mindless, silly, stupid, stupidly, wooden-headed), pustiu (bare, blank, bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, empty, gaunt, solitary, solitude, uninhabited, unoccupied, useless, waste, wild, wilderness), lipsit de bun-simţ (void of common sense), idiot (cretinous, fool, half wit, idiot, idiotic, idiotical, idiotically, lunkhead, mooncalf, mutt, nincompoop, numskull, piffling, soft, stick, stupid), fãrã simţire. (various references)

Russian 

бессмысленный (blank, crack-brained, driftless, fatuous, headless, kill time, meaningless, mindless, nonsensial, nonsensical, pointless, unmeaning, wanton). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nerazumno (blindly, grain: against the grain), nerazuman (unreasonable, unreasoned), nerazborit (injudicious), neosetljiv (cold-livered, impassible, impassive, imperceptible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, steel, stolid, stony, tearless, unfeeling, unsusceptible). (various references)

Spanish

sin sentido (dead, meaningless, nonsensical, pointless, unconscious, wanton), insensato (insensate, mad, meaningless, senselessly, wild), inconsciente (insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, thoughtless, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, unwitting), estúpido (addle-brained, addle-head, addle-pated, anserine, asinine, blockhead, blunderhead, bone head, brainless, coot, crass, dense, dim witted, donkey, dull, dullard, idiot, idiotic, lame brain, lumpish, obtuse, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, soft, stupe, stupid). (various references)

Swedish

sanslös (unconscious), meningslös (futile, insignificant, meaningless, mindless, nonsensical, purposeless, wanton). (various references)

Turkish

saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), mantıksız (absurd, illegitimate, illogical, implausible, impractical, inadvisable, inconsequent, inconsequential, injudicious, insensate, irrational, opaque, preposterous, unconscientious, unconscionable, unreasonable, unreasoning, wacky), kendinden geçmiş (beside oneself, distracted, distraught, ecstatic, enrapt, entranced, gone, intoxicated, rapt, rapturous, slaphappy, unconscious), hissiz (apathetic, apathetical, benumbed, bloodless, callous, crass, cruel, devoid of feelings, dispassionate, down to earth, impassible, impassive, indifferent, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numb, soulless, torpid), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, blunt, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, soulless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved), duyarsız (deaf, hard-hearted, immune, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, stolid, thick skin), bilinçsiz (unconscious), baygın (comatose, faint, fainted, heavy, insensible, languid, languishing, languorous, unconscious), şuursuz (unconscious), anlamsız (absurd, barren, blank, dead pan, empty, expressionless, for the birds, frivolous, grotesque, inane, incoherent, inept, inexpressive, insane, insignificant, meaningless, nonsense, nonsensical, of no significance, pointless, purposeless, ridiculous, sodden, unmeaning, unreasonable, vacuous, vain, yeasty). (various references)

Turkmen 

manysyz (pointless). (various references)

Ukrainian

нечутливий (gross, impassible, impassive, insensate, insensible, insensitive, non-sensitive, stockish, unfeeling), непритомний (die away, unconscious), безглуздий (absurd, addle-brained, addle-pated, barmy, blind, brainless, brute, crack-brained, crazy, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, impertinent, insane, ludicrous, meaningless, nail biting, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, wanton, wet). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô nghĩa điên rồ, ngu dại (insensate, stupid), không có cảm giác, bất tỉnh không có nghĩa. (various references)

Welsh

disynnwyr, dienaid (soulless). (various references)

infrunitae. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "senseless": senselessly, senselessness, senselessnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Senseless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Senselle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: lessees, lessens.

-3 letters: lenses, lessee, lessen, nesses, senses.

-4 letters: esses, lenes, lense, seels, sense.

-5 letters: eels, else, eses, lees, lens, less, ness, seel, seen, sees, sels, sene.

+1 letter: selfnesses, solenesses.

+2 letters: agelessness, blessedness, closenesses, endlessness, falsenesses, loosenesses, senselessly, sexlessness, sleeknesses, stalenesses, uselessness.

+3 letters: carelessness, facelessness, fearlessness, fecklessness, fleshinesses, headlessness, heedlessness, helplessness, homelessness, hopelessness, lifelessness, lovelessness, movelessness, namelessness, needlessness, recklessness, restlessness, seamlessness, seemlinesses, selectnesses, selflessness, selfsameness, sensibleness, silentnesses, simplenesses, singlenesses, sleazinesses, sleepinesses, solemnnesses, stablenesses, steelinesses, subtlenesses, sullennesses, supplenesses, suspenseless, sveltenesses, timelessness, tirelessness, tonelessness, usablenesses, usefulnesses.