senseless

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SENSELESS, adjective sens'less. 1. Wanting the faculty of perception. The body when dead is senseless; but a limb or other part of the body may be senseless, when the rest of the boky enjoys its usual sensibility. 2. Unfelling; wanting sympathy. The senseless feels not your pious sorrows. Rowe. 3. Unreasonable; foolish; stupid. They would repent this their senseless perverseness, when it would be to late. Clarendon. 4. Unreasonable; stupid; acting without sense or judgement. Ther were a senseless stupid race. Swift. 5. Contrary to reason or sound judgement; as, to destroy by a senseless fondness the happiness of children. 6. Wanting knowledge; unconscious; with of; as libertiness, senseless of any charm in love. 7. Wanting sensibility or quick perception.
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