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Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

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  1. a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
  2. adj. not marked by the use of reason
  3. adj. unresponsive to stimulation
  4. adj. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  5. adj. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
  6. 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.
  7. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; withoutsensibility 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 betoo late. Clarendon.--- Sense"less*ly, adv.-- Sense"less*ness, n.
  8. j:100 s not marked by the use of reason s unresponsive to stimulation s serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being s (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment