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Meaning of "senselessly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SENSELESSLY

senselessly  [ˈsenslɪslɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SENSELESSLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Senselessly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES SENSELESSLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of senselessly in the English dictionary

The definition of senselessly in the dictionary is in a manner that is wrong because it has no purpose and produces no benefit.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SENSELESSLY


artlessly
ˈɑːtlɪslɪ
baselessly
ˈbeɪslɪslɪ
blamelessly
ˈbleɪmlɪslɪ
bootlessly
ˈbuːtlɪslɪ
causelessly
ˈkɔːzlɪslɪ
defenselessly
dɪˈfenslɪslɪ
doubtlessly
ˈdaʊtlɪslɪ
formlessly
ˈfɔːmlɪslɪ
harmlessly
ˈhɑːmlɪslɪ
heartlessly
ˈhɑːtlɪslɪ
heedlessly
ˈhiːdlɪslɪ
humourlessly
ˈhjuːməlɪslɪ
mirthlessly
mɜːθlɪslɪ
nervelessly
ˈnɜːvlɪslɪ
placelessly
ˈpleɪslɪslɪ
remorselessly
rɪˈmɔːslɪslɪ
sightlessly
ˈsaɪtlɪslɪ
spinelessly
ˈspaɪnlɪslɪ
successlessly
səkˈsɛslɪslɪ
voicelessly
ˈvɔɪslɪslɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SENSELESSLY

sensationless
sense
sense datum
sense of direction
sense of humour
sense of occasion
sense organ
senseful
sensei
senseless
senselessness
senses
sensi
sensibilia
sensibilities
sensibility
sensible
sensible horizon
sensible note
sensibleness

WORDS THAT END LIKE SENSELESSLY

aimlessly
carelessly
effortlessly
endlessly
expressly
faultlessly
flawlessly
grossly
helplessly
hopelessly
mercilessly
needlessly
recklessly
relentlessly
ruthlessly
seamlessly
shamelessly
spotlessly
timelessly
tirelessly
wordlessly

Synonyms and antonyms of senselessly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «senselessly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SENSELESSLY

Find out the translation of senselessly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of senselessly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «senselessly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

痴痴
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

insensatamente
570 millions of speakers

English

senselessly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निर्विकार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عبثا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бессмысленно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

senselessly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

senselessly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

stupidement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengan tidak masuk akal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sinnlos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

意味もなく
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무분별
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Senselessly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điên cuồng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அபத்தமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूर्खपणाची
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anlamsız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

insensatamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezsensownie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безглуздо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fără sens
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

senselessly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sinneloos
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

meningslöst
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

senselessly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of senselessly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SENSELESSLY»

The term «senselessly» is regularly used and occupies the 71.889 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SENSELESSLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about senselessly

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QUOTES WITH «SENSELESSLY»

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Andrei Platonov
If they don't think, people act senselessly.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SENSELESSLY»

Discover the use of senselessly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to senselessly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Monk in the Inner City: The ABCs of a Spiritual Journey
In this gesture Jesus was being senselessly kind, and theself righteous came to selfknowledge. In the gesturehe was senselessly hospitable, embracing bothaccusers andaccused, andlives were changed. In the gesture hewas senselessly just ...
Mary Lou Kownacki
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Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
When I was a poor young boy in school Girls like you always played me for a fool But now the time has come to lay to waste The theory people have of getting an acquired taste You treated me oh so so senselessly cruel From the beginning I ...
Lou Reed, 2008
3
Linguistic Behaviour
a row, are senselessly extended sentences. I presume that a semantic theory for English could define a category of senselessly extended sentences, whose members would include 'I sat there while he talked and talked and talked and talked ...
Jonathan Bennett, 1979
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The Wisdom Literature: Interpreting Biblical Texts Series
15My son, do not walk on the way with them, keep your foot from their path, 17for senselessly would the net be thrown high in the sight of a winged creature. 18As for them, they are setting an ambush fortheir own blood, lying in wait for their ...
Richard J. Clifford, 2011
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Organ Transplants from Executed Prisoners: An Argument for ...
This method of execution senselessly and needlessly destroys many transplantableorgansas a result of piercing and ripping by bullets. CRITICISM OF HANGING There aretwo basicarguments against using hanging as a method of execution.
Louis J. Palmer, Jr., 2014
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Modernist Eroticisms: European Literature After Sexology
This drive had something of the eternal Jew, senselessly driven, senselessly wandering through a senselessly filthy world.23 As indicated by the threefold repetition of the adverb 'senselessly' (sinnlos) in the final sentence of the above ...
Anna Katharina Schaffner, Shane Weller, 2012
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The Advocate
Reading Judy Shepard's words one year after her son Matthew was brutally and senselessly murdered really tugged at my heart ["The Shepard Family Heals," October 12]. I pray I never have to face that kind of pain. Judy reaffirms the lessons ...
8
Field & Stream
Cory Nason Suffolk, VA • To answer your questions in order: (1) Many Angola inmates are there because they senselessly murdered people, and letting them senselessly murder the occasional fish helps keep them in practice for when they  ...
9
Sexual Revolutions: Psychoanalysis, History and the Father
In truth Kafka saw his sexuality in terms of his sexual difference, encompassed in the reality of his own circumcised penis. Sexuality, he recounts, `had in it something of the eternal Jew, being senselessly drawn, wandering senselessly through ...
Gottfried Heuer, 2010
10
The Castle
Kafka's letter to Milena of 8—9 August 1920, in which he says that his sexual urge 'had something of the eternal Jew—senselessly being drawn along, senselessly wandering through a senselessly obscene world', yet that in sex ' there's ...
Franz Kafka, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SENSELESSLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term senselessly is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Senselessly Taken': Aspiring pastor recalled; police pursue shooter
My brother wasn't home a year, and his life was senselessly taken away from him." Reed would have been 35 on Aug. 25. To his sisters, he was a kind, humble ... «Daily Comet, Jul 15»
2
Mom Kisses Her Baby Before Senselessly Throwing Him Off a Bridge
lehigh river allentown pa It's shocking enough that a mother was seen killing her one-year-old son in broad daylight. But the way this woman did it is baffling. «The Stir, May 15»
3
Stop the USDA Wildlife Services from Senselessly Slaughtering Our …
Even though Wildlife Services has “no interest in cleaning up its act,” you can sign and share this petition demanding that it stops the senseless extermination of ... «Care2.com, Apr 15»
4
Honoring the Senselessly Dead: The Khmer Rouge and Modern …
How might we honor the senselessly dead? It seems to me that as someone not from Cambodia, and especially as an American, the biggest takeaway from the ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»
5
Senselessly-Sexual Self-Reflection: Alaina Stamatis Releases …
Stamatis “mentioned 'senselessly-sexual self-reflection' and I ran with it,” Schmidt said via email. “The images are inspired by both the general tone and by ... «ARTnews, Apr 15»
6
Vigil Held For Woman Killed Senselessly In Front Of 12-Year-Old Son
Denise Berry, 44, was driving with her son in Hawthorne Wednesday when he allegedly laughed at the occupants of a nearby Cadillac which had some feet ... «CBS Local, Apr 15»
7
Evil thug Brian Ramsay senselessly battered Good Samaritan two …
Evil thug Brian Ramsay senselessly battered Good Samaritan two weeks after cutting off his own electronic tag. 23:00, 13 February 2015; By Jane Hamilton ... «Scottish Daily Record, Feb 15»
8
#ChapelHillShooting: Lives lost, senselessly
Two days ago, they were killed, execution style, in their apartment in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on the east coast of the US. Deah (23) was a second-year ... «Thought Leader, Feb 15»
9
'Six people died senselessly': Neighbors find solace in demolition of …
“It was a daily reminder that six people senselessly died in that fire,” she continued. “It was a horrible, helpless feeling seeing that fire and knowing people were ... «Bangor Daily News, Feb 15»
10
Russia Shouldn't Burn Its Reserves 'Senselessly,' Putin Says
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow today. Photographer: Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images. «Bloomberg, Dec 14»

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