Senselessly

Definitions: Senselessly

Senselessly

Adverb

1. In a meaningless and purposeless manner; "these innocent bystanders were senselessly killed".

2. In an unreasonably senseless manner; "these temples were mindlessly destroyed by the Red Guards".

Modern Usage: Senselessly

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	We'd gotten reports of hundreds of cows had been senselessly slaughtered in the area, but I couldn't find any evidence. (Police Squad!; writing credit: Tino Insana; Nancy Steen)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Senselessly

"Senselessly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Senselessly" is used about 6 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)

Modern Translations: Senselessly

Language		Translations for "senselessly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		vide de sens. (various references)

German		sinnlos (blind, desperate, forlorn, futile, meaningless, pointless, purposeless, self-defeating, senseless, unprofitable, useless). (various references)

Italian		senza senso (meaningless, pointless). (various references)

Pig Latin		enselesslysay

Russian		бессмысленно (fatuously, vacantly, wantonly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ludo (madly), bezosećajno. (various references)

Spanish		insensato (insensate, mad, meaningless, senseless, wild). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Senselessly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-l-n-s-s-s-s-y"
	-2 letters: senseless, slynesses.
	-3 letters: lensless.
	-4 letters: eyeless, lessees, lessens, selsyns, slyness.
	-5 letters: lenses, lessee, lessen, nesses, selles, selsyn, senses, snells, yesses.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-l-n-s-s-s-s-y"
	+2 letters: stylelessness.
	+4 letters: stylelessnesses.
	+5 letters: expressionlessly.
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