senseless
senseless is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. Shak. The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. Rowe. They were a senseless, stupid race. Swift. They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. Clarendon. --- Sense"less*ly, adv. -- Sense"less*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdness
- agent
- alogy
- anaesthesia
- anaesthetic
- anaesthetize
- anticlimax
- bathos
- benumb
- blunder
- blunt
- boutade
- bull
- callous
- case
- chloral
- chloroform
- coma
- comatose
- contradictory
- dead
- delusion
- disorder
- dull
- egregious
- escapade
- ether
- exaggeration
- exhilarating
- extravagance
- extravagant
- fantastic
- farce
- farrago
- fool
- foolish
- fustian
- gas
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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