senseless – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of senseless

Adjective: senseless

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore senseless
Superlativemost senseless

Sample Sentences

  • The blow to his head rendered him senseless; he didn’t awaken until he was in the ambulance.
  • That hoary man had spent his livelong age / In converse with the dead, who leave the stamp / Of ever-burning thoughts on many a page, / When they are gone into the senseless damp / Of graves; […] [1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Revolt of Islam; […], London: […] [F]or C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; by B[uchanan] M‘Millan, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):]
  • What a senseless waste of money.
  • The school shooting was a senseless act of violence.
  • Addressing the nation on Thursday, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala called the shooting “a senseless attack” and said “this Christmas will be unimaginably sad.” [2023 December 22, Ivana Kottasová, “Prague in shock and horror after ‘senseless’ shooting attack leaves 14 dead”, in CNN:]
  • At the news conference, Crump called her killing “senseless on every level.” [2024 July 24, Emma Tucker and Bill Kirkos, “What we know about the deputy charged with killing Sonya Massey in her home after she called 911 for help”, in CNN:]
  • He took senseless risks, not even aware of the danger he was in.
  • [T]he King vvas obliged to qualify his grant, by eſtabliſhing betvveen the contending parties a rotation of ſeniority, each to take place alternately for a year, the ſurvivor to precede for his life the heir of the other, and ſo in perpetuum. A ſenſeleſs jumble, ſoon liquidated by a more egregious act of folly, the King vvith his ovvn hand crovvning the young Duke of VVarvvick King of the Iſle of VVight— […] [1762, Horace Walpole, “State of Painting from the Reign of Henry III. to the End of Henry VI.”, in Anecdotes of Painting in England; […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Farmer […], →OCLC, pages 39–40:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
3. Proto-Italic *sentiō
4. Latin sentiō
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
6. Proto-Italic *-tus
7. Latin -tus
8. Latin sēnsusbor.
9. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
10. Frankish *sinnbor.
11. Vulgar Latin *sennus
12. Old French sensbor.
13. Middle English sense
14. English sense
15. Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
16. Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
17. Proto-Germanic *leusaną
18. Proto-Germanic *lausaz
19. Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
20. Proto-West Germanic *-laus
21. Old English -lēas
22. Middle English -les
23. English -less
24. English senseless
25. From sense + -less. Compare Saterland Frisian sinloos (“senseless, foolish”).

Verbs referencing "senseless"

Swedish Adjectives sanslös.