senseless

adjective

ˈsen(t)s-ləs How to pronounce senseless (audio)
Definition of senselessnext
1
as in unconscious
having lost consciousness she collapsed, senseless, after hitting her head

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2
as in meaningless
having no meaning a pretty but senseless phrase

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3
as in stupid
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily he may be a little absentminded, but he's really not as senseless as he seems

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as in foolish
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment a senseless decision to risk his life on a practical joke

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as in inanimate
lacking animate awareness or sensation even the senseless sea seemed determined to swamp the storm-tossed ship

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Recent Examples of senseless This is a senseless airline rule that ruined your chances of making it to your meeting. — Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025 What should have been a welcome respite from the day-to-day pressures to move her body and clear her mind became a senseless tragedy that left her family in anguish and the Harford County and Baltimore-area community in shock. — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2025 Our staff, patrons, and this community are like family to us, and we are completely shaken by this senseless act of violence. — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025 In his speech, George invokes the memory of his old friend John Flanagan, an army colleague whose senseless murder in Brooklyn inspired George to become a prosecutor. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for senseless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senseless
  1. unconscious
  2. meaningless
  3. stupid
  4. foolish
  5. inanimate
  6. dumb
  7. silly
  8. insensate
Adjective
  • The victim was unconscious and had bruises on his face and body when the couple dropped him at Downstate Medical Center in East Flatbush Saturday.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • According to local newspaper The Korea Times, Wheesung was discovered unconscious in his apartment in Seoul’s northern Gwangjin-gu district at 6:29 p.m.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of unconscious
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  • The law, after all, is meaningless if no one can enforce it.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 18 Mar. 2025
  • That figure is meaningless, Reyes said, because there was no comparison offered to the deployment rate of servicemembers overall.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of meaningless
Adjective
  • His is a sort of erudite buffoonery that consistently tap-dances between clever, self-aware, and patently stupid.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Each of them loses track of a CD filled with secrets, and some end up dying in the stupidest possible ways because of their incompetence.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of stupid
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  • No matter what your feelings are about Sternberg and his executive team today, these are not foolish people.
    — John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
  • There's nothing foolish about choosing beauty over practicality if that's what your heart desires.
    — PCMAG, PCMAG, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of foolish
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  • That’s why horror movies often have these inanimate emblems that are so terrifying.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Celebrate by having a relaxing bath with your favorite inanimate waterfowl.
    — Rosalind Bowling, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of inanimate
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  • Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.
    — Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
  • Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.
    — Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
Definition of dumb
Adjective
  • Finally, its focus on physics means that things get silly pretty quickly, which makes for very shareable moments and clips.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Dozen Bakery off Nolensville Pike is celebrating this silliest of holidays with special pies and quiche.
    — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of silly
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  • The brain, like other internal organs, is insensate, its lack of sensory receptors attested by videos of virtuoso violinists who play on unfazed as neurosurgeons go to work inside their skulls.
    — Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
  • But states have used midazolam alone — and at much higher doses — in executions since 2013, claiming the drug will render people insensate to pain before the administration of other lethal injection drugs.
    — Lauren Gill, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2023
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