Sense·less, a. 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.
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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]