Hypertext Webster Gateway: "senseless"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Senseless \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
senseless
adj 1: not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence";
"reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn: {mindless},
{reasonless}]
2: unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had
fallen"; "drugged and senseless" [syn: {insensible}]
3: lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially
purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: {pointless}, {purposeless}]
4: (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or
judgment [syn: {nitwitted}, {soft-witted}, {witless}]
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