Senselessly

2 definitions found

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]:

  senselessly
       adv 1: in a meaningless and purposeless manner; "these innocent
              bystanders were senselessly killed"
       2: in an unreasonably senseless manner; "these temples were
          mindlessly destroyed by the Red Guards" [syn: {mindlessly}]