senseless
Senseless things have no meaning — you can't easily explain why they happen. Senseless people, on the other hand, are simply unconscious.
This adjective often describes something terrible or violent, like a senseless accident or the senseless destruction of a city. It can also mean "done without thinking," or "lacking understanding," so a senseless student will give the teacher a blank look when their name is called, and a hiking trip across the Rockies in the winter would be senseless too. The "unconscious" meaning is the oldest, dating from the 1550s.
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not marked by the use of reason“a senseless act”synonyms: mindless, reasonlessunreasonablenot reasonable; not showing good judgment
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serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being“senseless violence”synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, superfluous, wastedworthlesslacking in usefulness or value
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(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgmentsynonyms: nitwitted, soft-witted, witlessstupidlacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
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unresponsive to stimulationsynonyms: insensibleunconsciousnot conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead
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The suffix -less, meaning "without," is added to nouns and verbs to form adjectives. For example, a hopeless situation is a situation without hope. Learn these words that use the suffix less.
This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that means "without."
The suffix -less, meaning "without," is added to nouns and verbs to form adjectives. For example, a hopeless situation is a situation without hope. Learn these words that use the suffix -less.