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as in unconscious
having lost consciousness
she collapsed, senseless, after hitting her head
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as in meaningless
having no meaning
a pretty but senseless phrase
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as in dumb
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
As a ruthless hitman (Javier Bardem) tries to track him down, the local sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) tries to make sense of it all and faces an existential crisis about the senseless violence of the world today.
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Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
The boy’s family and county leaders are renewing their plea for witnesses to come forward, saying justice for a child lost to senseless street violence is long overdue.
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Seamus Bozeman
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Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
The moves were senseless, short-sighted and emblematic of everything wrong with professional sports in this day and age.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
The ordeal was no longer a senseless drive to nowhere but a sensible one to nowhere.
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Weike Wang,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
The boy’s family and county leaders are renewing their plea for witnesses to come forward, saying justice for a child lost to senseless street violence is long overdue.
—
Seamus Bozeman
follow,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
The moves were senseless, short-sighted and emblematic of everything wrong with professional sports in this day and age.
—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
The ordeal was no longer a senseless drive to nowhere but a sensible one to nowhere.
—
Weike Wang,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for senseless
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The moped passenger, who police said was struck by the truck’s rear wheel, can be seen on the video splayed out unconscious on the street.
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Officers responding to the incident found an unconscious man lying on the sidewalk suffering from at least one gunshot wound.
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Relatively meaningless but still badass.
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At its core, unlike those meaningless marketing terms, ‘regenerative,’ when used responsibly, is legitimately full of deep meaning and has the potential to make significant human and environmental change when adopted at scale.
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Not all blondes are dumb, don’t judge a book by its cover, yada yada yada, lo and behold, Reese Witherspoon is a certified movie star.
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Though Cady has made some gestures toward helping the Bowdens, like his behind-the-scenes effort to get one of Anna’s death-row clients exonerated last week, Tom and Anna should not be so dumb as to ignore his ulterior motives.
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Further, Plato’s disdain for Gorgias, Antisthenes’ first teacher, and sophistry in general is clear; in the Platonic dialogue Gorgias, the titular character is made out to be rather foolish.
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One is villianized and one is made to look foolish.
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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.
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As a result, the concept of animal rights was non-existent and people were free to treat animals like any other inanimate property.
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And no, that was NOT OutKick or FOX who wrote that stupid headline.
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The thing about House of the Dragon is that everything really is quite stupid.
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Every player with a pulse had six suitors throwing silly money around.
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Some scenes in the movie are light and silly, including those pairing Maddie with a lesbian friend, played by Kate Berlant, who clearly loves her.
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The brain, like other internal organs, is insensate, its lack of sensory receptors attested by videos of virtuoso violinists who play on unfazed as neurosurgeons go to work inside their skulls.
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But states have used midazolam alone — and at much higher doses — in executions since 2013, claiming the drug will render people insensate to pain before the administration of other lethal injection drugs.
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“Senseless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senseless. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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