senseless

adjective

ˈsen(t)s-ləs How to pronounce senseless (audio)
Definition of senselessnext
1
as in unconscious
having lost consciousness she collapsed, senseless, after hitting her head

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2
as in meaningless
having no meaning a pretty but senseless phrase

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3
as in stupid
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily he may be a little absentminded, but he's really not as senseless as he seems

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as in foolish
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment a senseless decision to risk his life on a practical joke

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as in inanimate
lacking animate awareness or sensation even the senseless sea seemed determined to swamp the storm-tossed ship

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Recent Examples of senseless Daemon narrowly avoids death by dragon as Silverwing's fury brings down nearby stone structures, leaving him nearly senseless. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 Ten years after losing her father to a senseless tragedy, bride Jeni Stepien walked toward her future husband, Paul Maenner, on the arm of the one man who could testify that her father’s heart was still beating. — Staff, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026 Despite a ticking clock that seemingly guarantees the girl’s senseless death will be discarded as a cold case, Noelle is determined to uncover the truth. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 19 June 2026 This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. — Zack Sharf, Variety, 17 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for senseless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senseless
  1. unconscious
  2. meaningless
  3. stupid
  4. foolish
  5. inanimate
  6. dumb
  7. silly
  8. insensate
Adjective
  • Eric Anderson said the man was a transient known to the agency and was found unconscious Sunday afternoon near the park’s south entrance off Katella Avenue.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Officers found an unconscious adult man who was transported to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of unconscious
Adjective
  • Advertisement That does not make the markets emerging around lionfish, green crab, ta’ape, and carp meaningless.
    — Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Quantum Systems That doesn't make the flight of the Apex Recordhunter a meaningless milestone.
    — David Szondy October 20, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of meaningless
Adjective
  • But also, the audience is not used to people delivering blunt questions — no matter how stupid the answer.
    — Jade Tran, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Pierce and Kember were born in the same place on the same day, a lore-enhancing coincidence too stupid to make up.
    — Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of stupid
Adjective
  • The descent into foolish and self-destructive groupthink provides the drama.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
  • But Ohtani also struck out three times Thursday — made to look foolish in a much-too-familiar way.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of foolish
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  • The inanimate matter of the Earth endures, as does its atmosphere.
    — Eileen Hunt, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Then, in European culture, Christianity appeared, a religion which made an astonishing discovery, namely, that the primary cause for everything—humans, animals, nature, fertility, the inanimate world, the universe, the cosmos—could be concentrated into one single point.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
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  • And that's exactly where Glenn was for the second time this season — guilty of the dumbest moment of the week.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • There’s a dumb ending, involving the Bewitched theme and Dennis Rodman discussing the perils of adult illiteracy (sure), but everything before that is pretty fun, including the Bumblebee Man turning into a bumblebee and Lisa into Albert Einstein.
    — Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of dumb
Adjective
  • The feds gave the state a silly 48-hour deadline to agree to change constitutional law, dump common sense and sequester these 20,000 ballots, if they were even returned, to double-check they were cast by valid voters.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Performed by legends Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, the silly song is a tongue-twister for kiddos, and the titular word, which means ‘extraordinarily good, wonderful’ even made its way into some real deal dictionaries.
    — Stephanie Ganz Published, Parents, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of silly
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  • Police began showing up, flummoxed in the face of an irate attorney, indifferent third-party technicians, and insensate machines.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • This insensate gaze is one that cannot be returned, as Jacques Lacan observed of the camera pointed at him during his performative lecture Télévision, recorded in 1973 and broadcast on prime-time TV in France.
    — Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026
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“Senseless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senseless. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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