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

  Senseless \Sense"less\, a.
     Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without
     sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise;
     unreasonable.
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           You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless
           things.                                  --Shak.
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           The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
                                                    --Shak.
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           The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows.
                                                    --Rowe.
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           They were a senseless, stupid race.      --Swift.
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           They would repent this their senseless perverseness
           when it would be too late.               --Clarendon.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Sense"less*ly}, adv. -- {Sense"less*ness},
     n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  senseless
       adj 1: not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence";
              "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn: {mindless},
               {reasonless}]
       2: unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had
          fallen"; "drugged and senseless" [syn: {insensible}]
       3: lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially
          purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: {pointless}, {purposeless}]
       4: (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or
          judgment [syn: {nitwitted}, {soft-witted}, {witless}]

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

  295 Moby Thesaurus words for "senseless":
     abiotic, abnormal, absonant, absurd, aimless, amorphous,
     anesthetized, apish, asinine, asleep, azoic, batty, befooled,
     beguiled, benumbed, bereft of reason, besotted, brainless,
     brainsick, buffoonish, capricious, casual, cataleptic, catatonic,
     cockeyed, cold, comatose, contradictory, contrary to reason,
     crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft,
     dazed, dead, deadened, deluded, demented, deprived of reason,
     deranged, designless, desultory, dippy, disarticulated,
     discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, disoriented, dispersed,
     disproportionate, distraught, dizzy, doped, doting, drugged, dumb,
     empty, empty-headed, erratic, exanimate, fallacious, fatuitous,
     fatuous, faulty, fitful, flaky, flawed, flighty, fond, fool,
     foolheaded, foolish, formless, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga,
     garbled, goofy, gratuitous, gulled, half-conscious, hallucinated,
     haphazard, headless, hit-or-miss, idiotic, ignorant, ill-advised,
     ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged,
     illogical, imbecile, imbecilic, immethodical, impolitic,
     importless, imprudent, inadvisable, inane, inanimate, inanimated,
     inauthentic, inchoate, incoherent, inconclusive, incongruous,
     inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderate, inconsistent,
     indiscreet, indiscriminate, inept, inert, inexpedient, infatuated,
     injudicious, insane, insensate, insensible, insensitive,
     insentient, insignificant, invalid, irrational, irregular, kooky,
     lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, lifeless, loco, loony,
     loose, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, maudlin, mazed,
     meaningless, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless,
     misadvised, misguided, misshapen, moon-struck, moronic, mute,
     myopic, narcotized, nirvanic, nitwitted, non compos,
     non compos mentis, nonconnotative, nonconscious, nondenotative,
     nonliving, nonscientific, nonsensical, nonsymmetrical,
     nonsystematic, nonuniform, not all there, not bright,
     not following, not right, null, numbed, nutty, oblivious, odd,
     of little brain, of unsound mind, off, orderless, out, out cold,
     out of it, paralogical, pea-brained, phatic, pin-brained, planless,
     pointless, promiscuous, psycho, purportless, purposeless, queer,
     random, reasonless, reckless, ridiculous, sappy, scrambled, screwy,
     self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, semiconscious,
     sentimental, shapeless, shortsighted, sick, silly, slackminded,
     slackwitted, soulless, spaced out, spasmodic, sporadic, stark-mad,
     stark-staring mad, stoned, straggling, straggly, strange,
     strung out, stunned, stupid, surd, systemless, tetched,
     thoughtless, touched, trinal, unadvised, unanimated, unarranged,
     unauthentic, unaware, unbalanced, unclassified, unconnected,
     unconscious, unconsidered, undirected, undiscerning, unfeeling,
     unforeseeing, ungifted, ungraded, unhinged, unimportant,
     unintellectual, unintelligent, unjoined, unmeaning, unmethodical,
     unordered, unorganized, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unreasoning,
     unreflecting, unreflective, unsane, unscientific, unseeing,
     unsensible, unsettled, unsignificant, unsorted, unsound,
     unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful,
     ununiform, unwise, unwitty, vague, wacky, wandering, weak-minded,
     wet, wild, without reason, witless, wooden, zonked, zonked out
  
  

















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