Causeless

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Causeless \Cause"less\, a.
     1. Self-originating; uncreated.
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     2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless.
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              My fears are causeless and ungrounded. --Denham.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Causeless \Cause"less\, adv.
     Without cause or reason.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  causeless
       adj 1: having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless,
              causeless murder"; "a causeless war that never had an
              aim"; "an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change"
              [syn: {reasonless}]
       2: having no cause or apparent cause; "a causeless miracle";
          "fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune"; "we
          cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and
          unrelated to the times" [syn: {fortuitous}, {uncaused}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "causeless":
     accidental, adventitious, aimless, aleatory, casual, chance,
     chancy, contingent, designless, destinal, dicey, driftless,
     dysteleological, fatal, fatidic, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard,
     iffy, incidental, indeterminate, indiscriminate, inexplicable,
     mindless, promiscuous, purposeless, random, risky, stochastic,
     stray, unaccountable, uncaused, undetermined, undirected,
     unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unmotivated,
     unpredictable