词汇 | senseless |
释义 | senseless adjective uk /ˈsens.ləs/ us /ˈsens.ləs/ senselessadjective (NO JUDGMENT)C2 not at all reasonable, or with no good or useful purpose: 不明智的;无意义的;愚蠢的 a senseless argument无意义的争论 senseless killings/violence/deaths无谓的谋杀/暴力/死亡 Stupid and silly absurd absurdity absurdly adolescent against your better judgmentidiom dopey dopily dorky dottiness dotty imprudently in his/her/their wisdomidiom in someone's infinite wisdomidiom inadvisable injudicious subnormal uncritical uncritically undiscriminating unintelligent senselessadjective (NOT CONSCIOUS)unconscious: 失去知觉的 Panos was beaten senseless by the burglars.帕诺斯被窃贼们打得不省人事。 Losing consciousness black catatonia concuss concussion go out like a lightidiom hypnotic hypnotically in a drunken stupor insensibility insensible knock light pass pass out stun swoon unconsciously unconsciousness unresponsive unresponsiveness Related wordsenselessly senseless | American Dictionarysenseless adjective us/ˈsens·ləs/ senselessadjective (LACKING MEANING)lacking purpose or meaning: a senseless prank It was senseless to treat me like that. senselessadjective (UNCONSCIOUS)unconscious: They beat him senseless. Examples of senselesssenseless Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials re-ect semantic incongruity. Narratives also help make sense of a ' senseless ' event. Not only was senseless decorative profusion considered déclassé but it suggested that she was more interested in her appearance than the correctness of her seat. Here we find boundaries and transgression of boundaries, tribunals and courtrooms, judges and gatekeepers, and procedures for separating legitimate from illegitimate claims and meaningful from senseless utterances. In this manner, what started as a legitimate socio-economic grievance that could have created a new multireligious social movement was diverted into senseless violence that only intensified sectarian divisions. Providing good deeds, charitable acts, and material welfare to those at the bottom of the social hierarchy seemed far removed from those engaged in senseless demagoguery or wanton ter rorism. Once the attacks on self-reflexivity, metanarrative, and senseless abstraction were launched, they would ring true across disciplinary boundaries of discourses that had been used as resources for one another. In fact, this senseless result just indicates the absence of steady-state solutions in vacuum, because the ponderomotive force in this case will never be compensated by the induced charge separation. His main conclusion: "up until the eighteenth century it is a senseless enterprise to divorce science and literature" (1979, 137) is, if taken literally, undoubtedly overstated. The senseless and weightless void. He possibly would not have acted in the clueless, senseless manner in which the present holder of the office has acted since then. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You must not proceed on the lines of senseless oppression. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Apart from the economic disruption, there is the senseless brutality of it all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our great cities are being engulfed in a rising tide of senseless, mindless, purposeless destruction—which worries a great many people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You are purposely trying to silence the opposition to this senseless operation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of senseless These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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