senseless
/'senslis/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Lacking sense, understanding, or judgment: Used to describe a person or action that shows a complete absence of good sense, intelligence, or reason.
- Serving no useful purpose; pointless: Describing an action, event, or thing that has no rational justification, aim, or value.
- Unconscious; unresponsive to stimulation: Describing a state of being knocked out or insensible, often due to injury, drugs, or shock.
Usage Examples
- Lacking sense or judgment:
- It was a senseless act of vandalism that angered the whole community.
- He felt like a senseless fool for trusting the stranger's promise.
- Pointless; without purpose:
- The argument was senseless and only served to waste everyone's time.
- The movie's plot was confusing and ultimately senseless.
- Unconscious:
- The boxer was knocked senseless by a powerful uppercut.
- She fell and lay senseless on the floor for several minutes.
Advanced Usage
- "to knock/bludgeon someone senseless": To hit someone so hard that they become unconscious.
- The thief was bludgeoned senseless by the security guard.
- Used to intensify the irrationality or futility of a situation.
- The senseless brutality of the crime shocked the nation.
Variants and Related Words
- Senselessly (adverb): In a senseless manner.
- The resources were senselessly wasted.
- Senselessness (noun): The quality or state of being senseless.
- The sheer senselessness of the tragedy was hard to comprehend.
Synonyms
- Mindless: Showing a complete lack of thought or intelligence.
- Pointless: Having little or no sense, use, or purpose.
- Insensible: Unconscious; unaware.
- Irrational: Not logical or reasonable.
- Futile: Incapable of producing any useful result; pointless.
Antonyms
- Sensible: Having or showing good sense or judgment.
- Meaningful: Having a serious, important, or useful quality or purpose.
- Conscious: Aware of and responding to one's surroundings; awake.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- A senseless waste: A completely pointless and unnecessary loss or use of something.
- Leaving the lights on all day is a senseless waste of electricity.
- Senseless violence: Violence that occurs for no apparent or justifiable reason.
- The community rallied together after the outbreak of senseless violence.
Adjective
- (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- otiose lines in a play
- advice is wasted words
- a pointless remark
- a life essentially purposeless
- senseless violence
- unresponsive to stimulation
- he lay insensible where he had fallen
- drugged and senseless
- not marked by the use of reason
- mindless violence
- reasonless hostility
- a senseless act