senselessadj.

Brit.

/ˈsɛnsləs/, U.S.

/ˈsɛnsləs/

Forms: see sense n. and -less suffix; also superlative 1500s–1600s sencelest, 1500s–1600s senselest.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sense n., -less suffix.

Etymology: < sense n. + -less suffix. Compare Dutch zinneloos foolish, stupid, unaware (early 16th cent.), (now usually zinloos) meaningless (early 17th cent.), Middle Low German sinnelōs foolish, stupid, Old High German sinnelōs, Middle High German sinnelōs, German sinnlos, (now regional) sinnenlos unconscious, lacking awareness or consciousness, (in modern German chiefly) foolish, stupid, meaningless.

a. Of a person: unconscious; lacking consciousness (consciousness n. 5); not aware of oneself or one's environment.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [adjective]

insensible1426

senselessa1547

deadly1548

unsensible1568

slumbered1590

exanimate1619

lifeless1668

unconscious1832

impassive1846

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. B.ii^v With senslesse bodies euery strete is spred, Eche palace, and sacred porch of the Gods.

1551 T. Raynald tr. A. Vesalius Compend. Declar. Vertues Oile Imperial sig. Fiii^v Offt times the patient, xxiiii. houres or more, lieth so senseles that it appearith the same of al liffe to be wholi destitute.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. C^v Senseless he sprauld, all notcht with gaping wounds.

1747 tr. Mem. Nutrebian Court I. v. 89 I was carried home senseless and extremely bruised, which caused me to fall into a light-headed fever.

1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xvii. 194 I was almost senseless with terror.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 433 His wife..was carried senseless to her chamber.

1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 109 Where the poor fellow was lying senseless from his fall.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 112 I was conscious for a moment of the chloroform rag which was thrust over my mouth, but I have no notion how long I may have been senseless.

1971 A. B. Adams Geronimo xi. 156 Soon the ground was covered with the bodies of senseless warriors.

2012 T. Earley in New Yorker 1 Oct. 65/1 The..meteorite that might at any moment drop out of the sky and render him senseless.

b. Of a body, body part, etc.: deprived of sensation or feeling; insentient.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adjective]

unfeelingc1000

dead?c1225

unwitlessc1225

insensiblec1400

unfeelablec1400

unfredeablec1450

insensate?1520

blatea1522

deaf?1527

unsensible1531

inanimatea1555

senseless1557

unsensate1561

sleeping1562

insensitive1610

unsensitive1610

torpid1613

inanimated1646

torpent1647

unperceptive1668

feelless1684

insentient1764

unsentient1768

sensationless1824

apathic1835

non-sensitive1836

zombie-like1932

zombie-esque1946

zomboid1963

zombied1972

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. P.iiii^v Popilius flyeth, therwhyle: and, leauyng there The senslesse stock, a gryzely sight doth bear Unto Antonius boord, with mischief fed.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 306 His cheekes must not be pinched by the bridle, least the skin grow sencelesse.

1687 P. Adair Let. 13 Jan. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) VI. 208 A Palsie deserving, allmost, the name of Hemiplegia (for the greatest part of one side was constantly cold and senselesse).

1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick vi. 46 The more of those Carnose Fibres..goes to the Composition of any Part, the more dull and senseless is the Perception of that Part.

1772 N. D. Falck Treat. Venereal Dis. ii. vi. 258 Sometimes the parts will swell and be hard, sometimes quite senseless, and at other times again become inflamed and painful.

1848 Veterinarian Jan. 257 In the..horse's originally lame and senseless foot the power of feeling can be proved to have returned.

a1880 P. Moise Secular & Relig. Wks. (1911) 204 That senseless nerve has never yet thy soft vibrations felt.

1901 tr. in T'oung Pao 2 259 If the body is so numb as to be quite senseless, the skin is dead.

1957 R. Bradbury Dandelion Wine 253 A fly, like the burning ash of a cigarette, fell upon his senseless hand, sizzled, and flew away.

2013 H. Cross In Dream's Eye i. xii. 82 He slapped and rubbed his stiff and senseless legs.

c. Of an object or inanimate thing: incapable of sensation or perception.

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the world > life > source or principle of life > absence of life or consciousness > [adjective] > incapable of sensation or perception

senseless1559

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adjective] > of things

senseless1559

1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale iv. f. 59^v Amphion eke that Thebes builte, by sounde of harpe was saied, To haue removde the senselesse stones, and where he woulde, them laied.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. ii. sig. H.vj/2 What needest thou any more hereafter, to hunte after senselesse Idoles?

1610 R. Tofte tr. N. de Montreux Honours Acad. i. 15 Love doth willing draw The hardest hearts and sencelest rocks of Epyr with great awe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 477 Then senselesse Illium, Seeming to feele his blow, with flaming top Stoopes to his Bace, and with a hideous crash Takes Prisoner Pyrrhus eare.

1736 A. Hill tr. Voltaire Zara iii. i. 39 I stand, immoveable, like senseless Marble!

1798 W. Sotheby tr. C. M. Wieland Oberon viii. lx. 81 Downward she rushes in this dreary grave..Become, ah! would to heav'n! herself a senseless stone.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 105 He reflected whither the senseless paper was soon to be conveyed.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 165 The brutish winds..senseless, voiceless, inhuman Utter'd cry they hear not, in answers hollow reply not.

1952 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 12 Apr. 20/2 They appeased their gods and made obedient noises to senseless stone and deaf wood.

2001 W. Sircable Earthfont 165 The decomposition is spreading, John thought, spreading along the hard and senseless streets.

d. Esp. of sleep, death, the grave, etc.: characterized by or associated with a state of deep unconsciousness or insentience. Now rare.

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1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 67 What harme can there be in death? which if it were not senselesse, might much rather be termed immortalitie, then death.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxiv. sig. Xx7 With that, he stabbed himselfe into diuers places of his breast, and throte, vntill those wounds..brought him to the senselesse gate of Death.

1627 R. Bernard Guide Grand-iury Men i. ii. 13 In another disease..the sicke are also suddenly taken and surprized with a senselesse trance.

a1674 T. Traherne Circulation in Poems (1966) 45 Those Joys and Praises must repair To us, which tis a Sin To bury, in a Senceless Tomb.

1744 M. Horbery Enq. into Scripture-doctr. of Future Punishment iv. 218 Their Punishment, or Pain, will be so violent, that it will not only separate the Soul from the Body..but also cast it into a senseless Sleep.

1797 E. J. Eyre Fatal Sisters ii. 25 Well, O'Leary, if, when I am dropp'd into the cold and senseless grave, thou should'st e'er escape from out this lonely, dim recess.

1829 United Service Jrnl. Jan. 96 Who would not rather slumber In the still and senseless tomb!

1864 Rochester (Indiana) Sentinel 5 Mar. 5/6 He sank into a deep, senseless sleep the moment he settled down.

1914 Humboldt (Calif.) Republican 25 Sept. 7/2 Kirk was roused from a..senseless slumber the next morning by a vigorous rapping at his door.

1964 K. Kesey Sometimes Great Notion 375 The husk of a man who nightly drank himself into a senseless sleep.

a. Without sense, awareness, or consciousness of something. Also: incapable of sympathetic or emotional responsiveness; insensitive; unfeeling. Now rare.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > absence of perception > [adjective]

unwittingc893

unweeting1303

senseless1560

weetless1579

witless1584

imperceptive1661

inconscious1678

unconscious1712

unminding1714

impercipient1733

unconscient1829

incognizant1837

uncognisant1860

incognitive1862

inconscient1885

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > lacking emotional sensibility

unfeelingc1000

mis-feelinga1382

stonishc1450

unpainfulc1450

obtuse1509

sprightlessa1522

insensate1553

senseless1560

soulless1568

dull-esprited1591

impassible1592

bluntie1598

impenetrable1600

stockish1600

stolidc1600

incapable1601

stupid1605

tasteless1605

unsensitive1610

unexalted1611

insensible1617

unsensible1619

languid1622

immovable1639

dead-hearted1642

sterile1642

resupine1643

unaffectionate1645

iron-bound1648

resentlessa1649

torpid1656

torpulent1657

impassive1699

unreceptive1722

hebete1743

apathetic1744

stubbed1744

gustless1766

unresponsive1768

unsusceptible1779

tideless-blooded1786

unaffectioned1788

inaccessible1796

hebetudinous1820

unimpressible1828

insensitive1834

apathetical1835

non-sensitive1836

blunt-hearted1845

irreceptive1846

unreceptant1846

unimpressionable1847

anaesthetic1860

insentient1860

hard (also tough, sharp) as nails1862

unsqueamish1893

tone-deaf1894

unget-at-able1897

facty1901

zombie1937

pegamoid1957

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally unaffected

dead1340

unsmittenc1400

unmovedc1480

unkindleda1525

senseless1560

lumpish1585

unfired1590

unaffectedc1595

incapable1601

unsensible1611

insensible1615

untouched1616

impervious1618

unanswering1632

untransported1641

beauty-proof1676

insensate1726

unsusceptible1734

uninfluenced1735

unimbued1813

unsmote1814

unsusceptive1825

unalive1828

echoless1869

non-conducting1871

unsusceptible1872

irresponsive1886

affectless1912

1560 Medit. Penitent Sinner Pref. sig. A.ii^v, in A. L. tr. J. Calvin Serm. Songe Ezechias When markes and tokens of the reprobate, My growing sinnes, of grace my senslesse cheare, Enforce the profe of euerlastyng hate.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. iv. f. 4^v Those that chokyng the light of nature, do of purpose make them selues senselesse [Fr. s'abrutissent].

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. ii. sig. G2^v A signe not onely of presumpteous arrogancie, but also of sencelesse brutishnesse.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A3 Piero..is no nummed Lord, Senselesse of all true touch.

1680 T. Otway Orphan v. 63 Why wert thou Deaf to my Cryes and senseless of my pains?

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 28 Not senseless of its charms.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. 28 Sept. (1956) I. 143 Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity.

1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 70 Senseless is the breast, and cold, Which relenting love would fold.

1840 Gospel Standard Feb. 25 Only a trap..to lull him to sleep in carnal security, and keep him senseless of the true enjoyment of that endless happiness.

1905 Northwestern Christian Advocate 12 July 14/2 Man walks through the good things of life,..senseless of the higher things, the dearer things of enjoyment, culture, and love.

1990 N. Pickard Bum Steer xi. 64 Little hooves and legs were emerging from between the hind legs of the heifer, though she seemed senseless of it.

†b. Followed by a that-clause: unaware. Obsolete. rare.

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1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars v. xiii. 102 As scarcely thinking on it, As though not sencelesse that it should forgoe him.

3. Of a person or (occasionally) an animal: stupid, foolish; lacking intelligence or common sense.In quot. 1597 as adv.: foolishly.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adverb]

mazely?c1225

out of (all) reasonc1390

unreasonablya1398

senseless1565

irrationally1652

irrationably1657

unreasoningly1835

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective]

dizzyc825

unwisec825

redelessOE

unwittyc1000

daftlikec1175

witlessc1175

canga1225

adoted?c1225

cangun?c1225

egedec1225

cangeda1250

foola1250

snepea1250

aerwittec1275

sotlyc1275

unslyc1275

unwitterc1275

unwilya1300

nicec1300

goosishc1374

unskilfulc1374

follyc1380

lewdc1380

mis-feelinga1382

dottlec1390

foltedc1390

peevishc1400

fona1425

fonnishc1425

foliousa1450

foolisha1450

daft?c1450

doitedc1450

dotyc1450

daffish1470

insapientc1470

gucked?a1500

wanwittya1500

furious1526

insipient1528

seelya1529

dawish?1529

foolage1545

momish1546

base-wittedc1547

stultitiousa1549

follifulc1550

senseless1565

mopish1568

fondish1579

unsensiblea1586

fondly1587

dizzardly1594

follial1596

featlessc1598

fopperly1599

gowkeda1605

inept1604

simple1604

anserine1607

foppish1608

silly ass1608

unsage1608

wisdomless1608

fool-beggeda1616

Gotham1621

noddy1645

badot1653

dosser-headed1655

infrunite1657

nonsensicalc1661

slight1663

sappy1670

datelessa1686

noddy-peaked1694

nizy1709

dottled1772

gypit1804

shay-brained1806

folly-stricken1807

fool-like1811

goosy1811

spoony1813

niddle-noddle1821

gumptionless1823

daftish1825

anserous1826

as crazy as a loon1830

spoonish1833

cheese-headed1836

dotty1860

fool-fool1868

noodly1870

dilly1873

gormless1883

daffy1884

monkey-doodle1886

mosy1887

jay1891

pithecanthropic1897

peanut-headed1906

dinlo1907

boob1911

goofy1921

ding-a-ling1935

jerky1944

jerk1947

jerkish1948

pointy-headed1950

doofus1967

twitty1967

twittish1969

nerkish1975

numpty1992

1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 42^v I think there is none so senslesse as your selfe, but consters his words otherwise than you.

1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 55 Far more senselesse, than the senselest or brutest beast in the world.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. i. 44 You are too sencelesse obstinate my Lo: Too ceremonious and traditionall.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. i. sig. G2 An honest senselesse dolt, A good poore foole.

1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. viii. 400 His Lieutenant..being so senseless as to come upon [printed open] the draw Bridge of the Castle to talk with them.

1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 54 To hold forth, and harangue the Multitude,..wheresoever, and howsoever they could clock the sensless and unthinking Rabble about them.

1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xli. 127 Who is there so senseless as to renounce his share in a common benefit, unless he hopes to profit by a new division of the spoil.

1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. iii. 93 What! Will you give up these bodies to be dragged At horses' heels, so that our hair should sweep The footsteps of the vain and senseless crowd.

1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxiv. 345 When Eusebius asked her if she knew the man, she answered that she would not be so senseless as to accuse such men.

1912 C. Garnett tr. F. Dostoevsky Brothers Karamazov 1 He was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else.

1977 Pop. Sci. July 58/1 Only a senseless idiot would jam on both brakes on a slick wet road.

2011 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 24 Nov. 67 The entire blame for this nightmare of hold-ups..lies with the apparent army of mindless senseless cretins.

4. Of an action, occurrence, state of affairs, etc.: resulting from lack of sense or intelligence; stupid, foolish; often implying also lack of meaning, purpose, or point. Also with the latter meaning uppermost: without sense, signification, or meaning; unintelligible, purposeless.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [adjective]

emptya1225

sleevelessc1450

dumb1531

insensible1538

senseless1579

weetless1579

unsignificant1603

surd1605

matterless1612

unmeaning1632

non-significative1633

brute1642

shelly1648

insignificant1651

insignificative1660

unsignificative1664

unsignifying1665

unsensed1667

meaningless1728

bilka1734

meanless1734

inexpressive1744

unideal1751

unexpressive1755

idealess1793

unsuggestive1797

tenorless1821

themeless1840

nonsensible1851

inarticulate1855

purportless1865

expressionless1871

vacuous1872

contentless1886

unmeaningful1897

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adjective] > rendering physically insensible

senseless1579

numbing1581

numb-cold1597

astonishing1617

benumbing1628

deading1647

bedeading1656

torporific1769

sopient1804

deadening1805

torpefying1822

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective] > of things, actions, etc.

unwittyc1200

nicea1393

foolisha1413

kimeta1450

peevish1519

silly1566

senseless1579

untoward1658

bright1830

spoony1834

fool-fool1868

noodly1870

twitty1967

twittish1969

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. sig. ¶.ij^v What so they vnderstand not, they streight way deeme to be sencelesse.

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 1 D. Bridges hath written in your defence, a most senceles book.

1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) ii. xiv. 190 (margin) The Rabbines haue another as senselesse a dreame that Phineas was Elias.

1645 J. Ussher Body of Divinitie 419 Which thing yet were senslesse to doubt of.

1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §11. 11 There are other Creatures, as well as Monkeys, who, little wiser than they destroy their young Ones by sensless fondness, and too much embracing.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 113 Cheap, senseless Libels were scatter'd about the City.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 26. ⁋10 Putting all my Force against the horrid and senseless Custom of Duels.

1797 J. Gifford tr. T. G. de Lally-Tolendal Def. French Emigrants 384 The senseless attacks of the proletarian Jacobins.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 441 The senseless and dastardly wickedness of mixing noxious drugs with the food of a young girl whom he had no conceivable motive to injure.

1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 129 Many of the masters and overseers on these plantations..encourage nothing but cheerful music and senseless words.

1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 799 If that argument be true, the clause..was an absolutely futile and senseless one.

1933 E. A. Powell Slanting Lines of Steel xiii. 202 Fully a hundred shells fell during the next ten minutes, but it was a senseless waste of ammunition.

1974 J. Gaby Restless Waterfront 222 We got caught up in a senseless dispute, a demarcation issue, a most frustrating and hopeless affair.

2012 N.Y. Times 24 Nov. a20/3 I am filled with sorrow and anger at the senseless loss of life..in the Hurricane Sandy tragedy.

5. In predicative use (as object complement).

a. to knock (also beat) a person senseless and variants: to render (a person) unconscious through violence.

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1834 Atkinson's Casket Apr. 179/2 The point of the stick had caught Dolan fairly on the right temple.., as if done by a sabre stroke, felling him senseless.

1859 B. W. Noel Eng. & India i. ii. 112 It did not satisfy his tormentors, and he was beaten senseless.

1899 Pall Mall Mag. Feb. 307 In the outer tent I found the attendant women sleeping, and very quietly I knocked them senseless too.

1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xx. 357 You will come with me, though I have to ding you senseless and carry you.

1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere xx. 222 He beat the man senseless and had Fritzie what's his name drive him over the state line.

2011 Independent on Sunday 30 Oct. (New Review) 23/1 His trademark move—the classic head-butt, guaranteed to knock anyone senseless.

b. colloquial. In phrases denoting actions carried out to an extreme or excessive degree, esp. to the extent that the person involved becomes unconscious, or no longer capable of thinking or acting sensibly. Cf. silly adj. 8b.

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1908 Western Field Sept. 103/1 Our horses, simply scared senseless, tore along like two crazy things.

1930 R. Graves But it still goes On ii. 143 A man can drink himself silly or eat himself senseless on chocolate cream or tripe.

1964 Life July 12/3 I can just picture Mr. Gernreich and Miss Moffit laughing themselves senseless.

1985 D. Lucie Progress i. i, in Progress & Hard Feelings 5 He drinks himself senseless. It gets the whole family.

1998 J. Moores Brookside (Mersey TV transmission script) Episode 2039. 56 He'll bore you senseless about times when he used to work in the ‘bowels of a ship.’

2005 Food & Trav. Feb. 9/2 Pamper yourself senseless in the Pathways spa.

2013 London Evening Standard 10 Oct. 20/1 He is 29 and spends his time shagging her senseless.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	senseless
释义	senselessadj. Brit. /ˈsɛnsləs/, U.S. /ˈsɛnsləs/ Forms: see sense n. and -less suffix; also superlative 1500s–1600s sencelest, 1500s–1600s senselest. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sense n., -less suffix. Etymology: < sense n. + -less suffix. Compare Dutch zinneloos foolish, stupid, unaware (early 16th cent.), (now usually zinloos) meaningless (early 17th cent.), Middle Low German sinnelōs foolish, stupid, Old High German sinnelōs, Middle High German sinnelōs, German sinnlos, (now regional) sinnenlos unconscious, lacking awareness or consciousness, (in modern German chiefly) foolish, stupid, meaningless. 1. a. Of a person: unconscious; lacking consciousness (consciousness n. 5); not aware of oneself or one's environment. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [adjective] insensible1426 senselessa1547 deadly1548 unsensible1568 slumbered1590 exanimate1619 lifeless1668 unconscious1832 impassive1846 a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. B.ii^v With senslesse bodies euery strete is spred, Eche palace, and sacred porch of the Gods. 1551 T. Raynald tr. A. Vesalius Compend. Declar. Vertues Oile Imperial sig. Fiii^v Offt times the patient, xxiiii. houres or more, lieth so senseles that it appearith the same of al liffe to be wholi destitute. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. C^v Senseless he sprauld, all notcht with gaping wounds. 1747 tr. Mem. Nutrebian Court I. v. 89 I was carried home senseless and extremely bruised, which caused me to fall into a light-headed fever. 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xvii. 194 I was almost senseless with terror. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 433 His wife..was carried senseless to her chamber. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 109 Where the poor fellow was lying senseless from his fall. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 112 I was conscious for a moment of the chloroform rag which was thrust over my mouth, but I have no notion how long I may have been senseless. 1971 A. B. Adams Geronimo xi. 156 Soon the ground was covered with the bodies of senseless warriors. 2012 T. Earley in New Yorker 1 Oct. 65/1 The..meteorite that might at any moment drop out of the sky and render him senseless. b. Of a body, body part, etc.: deprived of sensation or feeling; insentient. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adjective] unfeelingc1000 dead?c1225 unwitlessc1225 insensiblec1400 unfeelablec1400 unfredeablec1450 insensate?1520 blatea1522 deaf?1527 unsensible1531 inanimatea1555 senseless1557 unsensate1561 sleeping1562 insensitive1610 unsensitive1610 torpid1613 inanimated1646 torpent1647 unperceptive1668 feelless1684 insentient1764 unsentient1768 sensationless1824 apathic1835 non-sensitive1836 zombie-like1932 zombie-esque1946 zomboid1963 zombied1972 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. P.iiii^v Popilius flyeth, therwhyle: and, leauyng there The senslesse stock, a gryzely sight doth bear Unto Antonius boord, with mischief fed. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 306 His cheekes must not be pinched by the bridle, least the skin grow sencelesse. 1687 P. Adair Let. 13 Jan. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) VI. 208 A Palsie deserving, allmost, the name of Hemiplegia (for the greatest part of one side was constantly cold and senselesse). 1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick vi. 46 The more of those Carnose Fibres..goes to the Composition of any Part, the more dull and senseless is the Perception of that Part. 1772 N. D. Falck Treat. Venereal Dis. ii. vi. 258 Sometimes the parts will swell and be hard, sometimes quite senseless, and at other times again become inflamed and painful. 1848 Veterinarian Jan. 257 In the..horse's originally lame and senseless foot the power of feeling can be proved to have returned. a1880 P. Moise Secular & Relig. Wks. (1911) 204 That senseless nerve has never yet thy soft vibrations felt. 1901 tr. in T'oung Pao 2 259 If the body is so numb as to be quite senseless, the skin is dead. 1957 R. Bradbury Dandelion Wine 253 A fly, like the burning ash of a cigarette, fell upon his senseless hand, sizzled, and flew away. 2013 H. Cross In Dream's Eye i. xii. 82 He slapped and rubbed his stiff and senseless legs. c. Of an object or inanimate thing: incapable of sensation or perception. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > absence of life or consciousness > [adjective] > incapable of sensation or perception senseless1559 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adjective] > of things senseless1559 1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale iv. f. 59^v Amphion eke that Thebes builte, by sounde of harpe was saied, To haue removde the senselesse stones, and where he woulde, them laied. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. ii. sig. H.vj/2 What needest thou any more hereafter, to hunte after senselesse Idoles? 1610 R. Tofte tr. N. de Montreux Honours Acad. i. 15 Love doth willing draw The hardest hearts and sencelest rocks of Epyr with great awe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 477 Then senselesse Illium, Seeming to feele his blow, with flaming top Stoopes to his Bace, and with a hideous crash Takes Prisoner Pyrrhus eare. 1736 A. Hill tr. Voltaire Zara iii. i. 39 I stand, immoveable, like senseless Marble! 1798 W. Sotheby tr. C. M. Wieland Oberon viii. lx. 81 Downward she rushes in this dreary grave..Become, ah! would to heav'n! herself a senseless stone. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 105 He reflected whither the senseless paper was soon to be conveyed. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 165 The brutish winds..senseless, voiceless, inhuman Utter'd cry they hear not, in answers hollow reply not. 1952 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 12 Apr. 20/2 They appeased their gods and made obedient noises to senseless stone and deaf wood. 2001 W. Sircable Earthfont 165 The decomposition is spreading, John thought, spreading along the hard and senseless streets. d. Esp. of sleep, death, the grave, etc.: characterized by or associated with a state of deep unconsciousness or insentience. Now rare. ΚΠ 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 67 What harme can there be in death? which if it were not senselesse, might much rather be termed immortalitie, then death. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxiv. sig. Xx7 With that, he stabbed himselfe into diuers places of his breast, and throte, vntill those wounds..brought him to the senselesse gate of Death. 1627 R. Bernard Guide Grand-iury Men i. ii. 13 In another disease..the sicke are also suddenly taken and surprized with a senselesse trance. a1674 T. Traherne Circulation in Poems (1966) 45 Those Joys and Praises must repair To us, which tis a Sin To bury, in a Senceless Tomb. 1744 M. Horbery Enq. into Scripture-doctr. of Future Punishment iv. 218 Their Punishment, or Pain, will be so violent, that it will not only separate the Soul from the Body..but also cast it into a senseless Sleep. 1797 E. J. Eyre Fatal Sisters ii. 25 Well, O'Leary, if, when I am dropp'd into the cold and senseless grave, thou should'st e'er escape from out this lonely, dim recess. 1829 United Service Jrnl. Jan. 96 Who would not rather slumber In the still and senseless tomb! 1864 Rochester (Indiana) Sentinel 5 Mar. 5/6 He sank into a deep, senseless sleep the moment he settled down. 1914 Humboldt (Calif.) Republican 25 Sept. 7/2 Kirk was roused from a..senseless slumber the next morning by a vigorous rapping at his door. 1964 K. Kesey Sometimes Great Notion 375 The husk of a man who nightly drank himself into a senseless sleep. 2. a. Without sense, awareness, or consciousness of something. Also: incapable of sympathetic or emotional responsiveness; insensitive; unfeeling. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > absence of perception > [adjective] unwittingc893 unweeting1303 senseless1560 weetless1579 witless1584 imperceptive1661 inconscious1678 unconscious1712 unminding1714 impercipient1733 unconscient1829 incognizant1837 uncognisant1860 incognitive1862 inconscient1885 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > lacking emotional sensibility unfeelingc1000 mis-feelinga1382 stonishc1450 unpainfulc1450 obtuse1509 sprightlessa1522 insensate1553 senseless1560 soulless1568 dull-esprited1591 impassible1592 bluntie1598 impenetrable1600 stockish1600 stolidc1600 incapable1601 stupid1605 tasteless1605 unsensitive1610 unexalted1611 insensible1617 unsensible1619 languid1622 immovable1639 dead-hearted1642 sterile1642 resupine1643 unaffectionate1645 iron-bound1648 resentlessa1649 torpid1656 torpulent1657 impassive1699 unreceptive1722 hebete1743 apathetic1744 stubbed1744 gustless1766 unresponsive1768 unsusceptible1779 tideless-blooded1786 unaffectioned1788 inaccessible1796 hebetudinous1820 unimpressible1828 insensitive1834 apathetical1835 non-sensitive1836 blunt-hearted1845 irreceptive1846 unreceptant1846 unimpressionable1847 anaesthetic1860 insentient1860 hard (also tough, sharp) as nails1862 unsqueamish1893 tone-deaf1894 unget-at-able1897 facty1901 zombie1937 pegamoid1957 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally unaffected dead1340 unsmittenc1400 unmovedc1480 unkindleda1525 senseless1560 lumpish1585 unfired1590 unaffectedc1595 incapable1601 unsensible1611 insensible1615 untouched1616 impervious1618 unanswering1632 untransported1641 beauty-proof1676 insensate1726 unsusceptible1734 uninfluenced1735 unimbued1813 unsmote1814 unsusceptive1825 unalive1828 echoless1869 non-conducting1871 unsusceptible1872 irresponsive1886 affectless1912 1560 Medit. Penitent Sinner Pref. sig. A.ii^v, in A. L. tr. J. Calvin Serm. Songe Ezechias When markes and tokens of the reprobate, My growing sinnes, of grace my senslesse cheare, Enforce the profe of euerlastyng hate. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. iv. f. 4^v Those that chokyng the light of nature, do of purpose make them selues senselesse [Fr. s'abrutissent]. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. ii. sig. G2^v A signe not onely of presumpteous arrogancie, but also of sencelesse brutishnesse. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A3 Piero..is no nummed Lord, Senselesse of all true touch. 1680 T. Otway Orphan v. 63 Why wert thou Deaf to my Cryes and senseless of my pains? 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 28 Not senseless of its charms. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. 28 Sept. (1956) I. 143 Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity. 1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 70 Senseless is the breast, and cold, Which relenting love would fold. 1840 Gospel Standard Feb. 25 Only a trap..to lull him to sleep in carnal security, and keep him senseless of the true enjoyment of that endless happiness. 1905 Northwestern Christian Advocate 12 July 14/2 Man walks through the good things of life,..senseless of the higher things, the dearer things of enjoyment, culture, and love. 1990 N. Pickard Bum Steer xi. 64 Little hooves and legs were emerging from between the hind legs of the heifer, though she seemed senseless of it. †b. Followed by a that-clause: unaware. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars v. xiii. 102 As scarcely thinking on it, As though not sencelesse that it should forgoe him. 3. Of a person or (occasionally) an animal: stupid, foolish; lacking intelligence or common sense.In quot. 1597 as adv.: foolishly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adverb] mazely?c1225 out of (all) reasonc1390 unreasonablya1398 senseless1565 irrationally1652 irrationably1657 unreasoningly1835 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective] dizzyc825 unwisec825 redelessOE unwittyc1000 daftlikec1175 witlessc1175 canga1225 adoted?c1225 cangun?c1225 egedec1225 cangeda1250 foola1250 snepea1250 aerwittec1275 sotlyc1275 unslyc1275 unwitterc1275 unwilya1300 nicec1300 goosishc1374 unskilfulc1374 follyc1380 lewdc1380 mis-feelinga1382 dottlec1390 foltedc1390 peevishc1400 fona1425 fonnishc1425 foliousa1450 foolisha1450 daft?c1450 doitedc1450 dotyc1450 daffish1470 insapientc1470 gucked?a1500 wanwittya1500 furious1526 insipient1528 seelya1529 dawish?1529 foolage1545 momish1546 base-wittedc1547 stultitiousa1549 follifulc1550 senseless1565 mopish1568 fondish1579 unsensiblea1586 fondly1587 dizzardly1594 follial1596 featlessc1598 fopperly1599 gowkeda1605 inept1604 simple1604 anserine1607 foppish1608 silly ass1608 unsage1608 wisdomless1608 fool-beggeda1616 Gotham1621 noddy1645 badot1653 dosser-headed1655 infrunite1657 nonsensicalc1661 slight1663 sappy1670 datelessa1686 noddy-peaked1694 nizy1709 dottled1772 gypit1804 shay-brained1806 folly-stricken1807 fool-like1811 goosy1811 spoony1813 niddle-noddle1821 gumptionless1823 daftish1825 anserous1826 as crazy as a loon1830 spoonish1833 cheese-headed1836 dotty1860 fool-fool1868 noodly1870 dilly1873 gormless1883 daffy1884 monkey-doodle1886 mosy1887 jay1891 pithecanthropic1897 peanut-headed1906 dinlo1907 boob1911 goofy1921 ding-a-ling1935 jerky1944 jerk1947 jerkish1948 pointy-headed1950 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 nerkish1975 numpty1992 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 42^v I think there is none so senslesse as your selfe, but consters his words otherwise than you. 1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 55 Far more senselesse, than the senselest or brutest beast in the world. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. i. 44 You are too sencelesse obstinate my Lo: Too ceremonious and traditionall. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. i. sig. G2 An honest senselesse dolt, A good poore foole. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. viii. 400 His Lieutenant..being so senseless as to come upon [printed open] the draw Bridge of the Castle to talk with them. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 54 To hold forth, and harangue the Multitude,..wheresoever, and howsoever they could clock the sensless and unthinking Rabble about them. 1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xli. 127 Who is there so senseless as to renounce his share in a common benefit, unless he hopes to profit by a new division of the spoil. 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. iii. 93 What! Will you give up these bodies to be dragged At horses' heels, so that our hair should sweep The footsteps of the vain and senseless crowd. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxiv. 345 When Eusebius asked her if she knew the man, she answered that she would not be so senseless as to accuse such men. 1912 C. Garnett tr. F. Dostoevsky Brothers Karamazov 1 He was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else. 1977 Pop. Sci. July 58/1 Only a senseless idiot would jam on both brakes on a slick wet road. 2011 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 24 Nov. 67 The entire blame for this nightmare of hold-ups..lies with the apparent army of mindless senseless cretins. 4. Of an action, occurrence, state of affairs, etc.: resulting from lack of sense or intelligence; stupid, foolish; often implying also lack of meaning, purpose, or point. Also with the latter meaning uppermost: without sense, signification, or meaning; unintelligible, purposeless. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [adjective] emptya1225 sleevelessc1450 dumb1531 insensible1538 senseless1579 weetless1579 unsignificant1603 surd1605 matterless1612 unmeaning1632 non-significative1633 brute1642 shelly1648 insignificant1651 insignificative1660 unsignificative1664 unsignifying1665 unsensed1667 meaningless1728 bilka1734 meanless1734 inexpressive1744 unideal1751 unexpressive1755 idealess1793 unsuggestive1797 tenorless1821 themeless1840 nonsensible1851 inarticulate1855 purportless1865 expressionless1871 vacuous1872 contentless1886 unmeaningful1897 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adjective] > rendering physically insensible senseless1579 numbing1581 numb-cold1597 astonishing1617 benumbing1628 deading1647 bedeading1656 torporific1769 sopient1804 deadening1805 torpefying1822 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective] > of things, actions, etc. unwittyc1200 nicea1393 foolisha1413 kimeta1450 peevish1519 silly1566 senseless1579 untoward1658 bright1830 spoony1834 fool-fool1868 noodly1870 twitty1967 twittish1969 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. sig. ¶.ij^v What so they vnderstand not, they streight way deeme to be sencelesse. 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 1 D. Bridges hath written in your defence, a most senceles book. 1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) ii. xiv. 190 (margin) The Rabbines haue another as senselesse a dreame that Phineas was Elias. 1645 J. Ussher Body of Divinitie 419 Which thing yet were senslesse to doubt of. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §11. 11 There are other Creatures, as well as Monkeys, who, little wiser than they destroy their young Ones by sensless fondness, and too much embracing. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 113 Cheap, senseless Libels were scatter'd about the City. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 26. ⁋10 Putting all my Force against the horrid and senseless Custom of Duels. 1797 J. Gifford tr. T. G. de Lally-Tolendal Def. French Emigrants 384 The senseless attacks of the proletarian Jacobins. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 441 The senseless and dastardly wickedness of mixing noxious drugs with the food of a young girl whom he had no conceivable motive to injure. 1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 129 Many of the masters and overseers on these plantations..encourage nothing but cheerful music and senseless words. 1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 799 If that argument be true, the clause..was an absolutely futile and senseless one. 1933 E. A. Powell Slanting Lines of Steel xiii. 202 Fully a hundred shells fell during the next ten minutes, but it was a senseless waste of ammunition. 1974 J. Gaby Restless Waterfront 222 We got caught up in a senseless dispute, a demarcation issue, a most frustrating and hopeless affair. 2012 N.Y. Times 24 Nov. a20/3 I am filled with sorrow and anger at the senseless loss of life..in the Hurricane Sandy tragedy. 5. In predicative use (as object complement). a. to knock (also beat) a person senseless and variants: to render (a person) unconscious through violence. ΚΠ 1834 Atkinson's Casket Apr. 179/2 The point of the stick had caught Dolan fairly on the right temple.., as if done by a sabre stroke, felling him senseless. 1859 B. W. Noel Eng. & India i. ii. 112 It did not satisfy his tormentors, and he was beaten senseless. 1899 Pall Mall Mag. Feb. 307 In the outer tent I found the attendant women sleeping, and very quietly I knocked them senseless too. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xx. 357 You will come with me, though I have to ding you senseless and carry you. 1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere xx. 222 He beat the man senseless and had Fritzie what's his name drive him over the state line. 2011 Independent on Sunday 30 Oct. (New Review) 23/1 His trademark move—the classic head-butt, guaranteed to knock anyone senseless. b. colloquial. In phrases denoting actions carried out to an extreme or excessive degree, esp. to the extent that the person involved becomes unconscious, or no longer capable of thinking or acting sensibly. Cf. silly adj. 8b. ΚΠ 1908 Western Field Sept. 103/1 Our horses, simply scared senseless, tore along like two crazy things. 1930 R. Graves But it still goes On ii. 143 A man can drink himself silly or eat himself senseless on chocolate cream or tripe. 1964 Life July 12/3 I can just picture Mr. Gernreich and Miss Moffit laughing themselves senseless. 1985 D. Lucie Progress i. i, in Progress & Hard Feelings 5 He drinks himself senseless. It gets the whole family. 1998 J. Moores Brookside (Mersey TV transmission script) Episode 2039. 56 He'll bore you senseless about times when he used to work in the ‘bowels of a ship.’ 2005 Food & Trav. Feb. 9/2 Pamper yourself senseless in the Pathways spa. 2013 London Evening Standard 10 Oct. 20/1 He is 29 and spends his time shagging her senseless. 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