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SENSELESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
Synonyms:
nitwitted; senseless; soft-witted; witless
Classified under:
Similar:
stupid (lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unresponsive to stimulation
Example:
drugged and senseless
Synonyms:
insensible; out of it; senseless
Classified under:
Similar:
unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not marked by the use of reason
Example:
a senseless act
Synonyms:
mindless; reasonless; senseless
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unreasonable (not reasonable; not showing good judgment)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
Example:
senseless violence
Synonyms:
otiose; pointless; purposeless; senseless; superfluous; wasted
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
worthless (lacking in usefulness or value)
Derivation:
senselessness (total lack of meaning or ideas)
Context examples:
I obeyed, and the two brutes picked up the senseless man like a sack of rubbish and hove him clear up the companion stairs, through the narrow doorway, and out on deck.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
At the same moment, another pirate grasped Hunter's musket by the muzzle, wrenched it from his hands, plucked it through the loophole, and with one stunning blow, laid the poor fellow senseless on the floor.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There was a turmoil in the audience—someone screamed, two ladies in the front row fell senseless from their chairs, and there was a general movement upon the platform to follow their chairman into the orchestra.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One of my senseless tricks!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was all in the same extravagant vein, garnished with many senseless oaths; but I observed this difference, that, whereas my uncle and Sheridan had something of humour in their exaggeration, Francis tended always to ill-nature, and the Prince to self-glorification.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No, you remember that she was senseless at the moment when the bottle was opened.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He struck Gennaro senseless and fled from the house which he was never more to enter.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! Learn my miseries and do not seek to increase your own.”
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
My father had fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Burley lay senseless, stunned by a blow from a mace, and half of the men-at-arms lay littered upon the ground around him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
