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How to pronounce senseless in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms mindless, reasonless


a senseless act.
Type Words
Synonyms nitwitted, soft-witted, witless
Type Words
Synonyms otiose, pointless, purposeless, superfluous, wasted
Derivation senselessness


senseless violence.
Type Words
Synonyms insensible, out of it


drugged and senseless.

Examples of senseless

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It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens.
From the courier-journal.com
Some members have spent millions on senseless projects in their local districts.
From the dailyherald.com
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
From the en.wikipedia.org
How can words even come close to describing something so terrible and senseless?
From the swampland.time.com
Now, I'm off to make senseless movies about my cat with the new video camera app.
From the techcrunch.com
The trouble with this story, like all senseless tragedies, is that it has no arc.
From the time.com
It's been rather discouraging, seeing Uncle Sam beaten senseless with a putter.
From the usatoday.com
Getting into a senseless dispute will take its toll and may cost you emotionally.
From the suntimes.com
Another viewing probably won't help you make any more sense of a senseless event.
From the psychcentral.com
More examples
  • Mindless: not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act"
  • Insensible: unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"
  • Otiose: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"
  • Nitwitted: (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
  • (senselessly) in a meaningless and purposeless manner; "these innocent bystanders were senselessly killed"
  • (senselessness) inanity: total lack of meaning or ideas
  • Senseless is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris and written by Greg Erb and Craig Mazin. The film stars Marlon Wayans, David Spade, and Matthew Lillard as college students.
  • Senselessness is the English translation of the 2004 novel Insensatez, originally written in Spanish by Honduran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya. Senselessness was translated by Katherine Silver and published in 2008 by New Directions Publishers. ...
  • Bereft of feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation; unconscious; insensible; Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense; pointless; meaningless; Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement; unreasonable; unwise; stupid