adjective
- Not marked by the use of reason.
- usage: "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act"
- synonyms: mindless, reasonless
- Unresponsive to stimulation.
- usage: "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"
- synonyms: insensible
- Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.
- usage: "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"
- synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, superfluous, wasted
- Of especially persons. ( lacking sense or understanding or judgment).
- synonyms: nitwitted, soft-witted, witless
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