SENSELESS


Meaning of SENSELESS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

knock sb unconscious/cold/senseless (= hit someone so hard that they fall unconscious )

Simon could knock a man unconscious with one punch to the jaw.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a senseless act of terror

It was a senseless and cruel murder.

Smashing up trains is such a senseless form of vandalism.

The suicide was described as a senseless waste of a young woman's life.

They beat him senseless , and left him for dead.

We don't want our men and women to die in a senseless war.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And for that reason it was senseless to be despondent.

It is only their courageous sacrifice and innate nobility that illuminates the bloody and senseless war they are involved in.

It was senseless to be despondent, anyway, even as Tom Ripley.

Knock it senseless every hour when it raised its fanged head and decided to sharpen its nasty little claws.

Motoring organisations slammed senseless drivers for travelling too fast.

That contrast of tender sensibility and senseless brutality was etched into my mind, exposing the utter meaninglessness of violence and war.

The act was senseless and completely unnecessary.

This, not the senseless murmurings of useless words, is what quiets her, tells her she is precious.

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