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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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She was found unconscious in the bay and had emergency brain surgery at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital the night of the crash.
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The man was unconscious and unresponsive after hitting the ground, police said.
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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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And the script’s very cute but deeply dumb leading man, Alex (Nico Carney), climbs a flight of stairs toward his best friend’s bedroom door.
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And there are no ego-destroying confrontations with people who know how to do things, who tell you that your idea is dumb.
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It’s presented without winks or nudges, neither as a joke nor necessarily foolish.
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If the target was foolish enough to reuse passwords, credential thefts like these could enable the compromise of more important accounts.
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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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Both cameras have extremely sticky tracking systems that focus on the eyes of people, wildlife, pets, and insects, as well as inanimate subjects like trains, planes, automobiles, and motorbikes.
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But even the most perfect Constitution can be undone by the wicked with the help of the bought, the stupid, and the cowardly.
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White can believe Hokit said something stupid and still believe fighters should be allowed to speak for themselves.
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When it’s done well, the audience doesn’t realize that’s what’s happening; this story is super-silly and the characters actually just got a little bit closer.
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The whole thing was undeniably silly.
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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 25 Jun. 2026.
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