Word Meanings - SENSELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: SENSELESS

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SENSELESS)

• Absurd
• Irrational
• ridiculous
• monstrous
• senseless
• asinine
• stupid
• chimerical
• unreasonable
• preposterous
• silly
• nonsensical
• foolish
• Empty
• Vacant
• void
• clear
• unencumbered
• unobstructed
• unoccupied
• waste
• uninhabited
• unfrequented
• devoid
• vacuous
• destitute
• unulled
• unfurnished
• untenanted
• evacuated
• deficient
• weak
• Billy
• idle
• Foolish
• Senseless
• idiotic
• crazed
• shallow
• injudicious
• irrational
• absurd
• contemptible
• objectionable
• witless
• brainless
• imbecile
• simple
• Hollow \adj
• (Metaphor)
• concave
• faithless
• insincere
• artificial
• unsubstantial
• flimsy
• transparent
• vacant
• unsound
• false
• Stolid
• Stupid
• dull
• heavy
• mindless
• doltish
• obtuse
• unintelligent

Related words: (words related to SENSELESS)

• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• CONCAVED
  Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• BILLY GOAT
  A male goat.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• IRRATIONAL
  Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• CONCAVE
  1. Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky. 2. Hollow; void
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• OBTUSE
  1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. 2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton. 3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• STOLIDNESS
  See STOLIDITY
• DEFICIENT
  Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.