SENSELESS, SENSELESSLY, SENSELESSNESS
ADJECTIVES
► AIMLESS senseless → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ASHEAPLY senseless, stupid → 1905 (Bk.)
► BUZZARD senseless, stupid → 1592
► BUZZARDLY stupid, senseless → 1561 obs.
► CRACKY crazy; senseless → 1850
► CRIMINAL senseless or deplorable; shocking → 1792 colloq.
► DAIVERT ► DAVERED wandering in mind, silly, senseless → 1795 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DEAD unconscious, senseless → 1887 Amer. dial.
► DOOLALLY-TRAPPED knocked senseless → 1910s sl.
► DOUGH-BAKED deficient in reason or sense
► FUCK-HEADED stupid, senseless → 1993
► GAUMLESS ► GORMLESS wanting sense or discernment → c1746 Eng. dial.
► GROLLISH foolish, senseless, superficial → 1637 obs.
► GUMPTIONLESS senseless → 1823
► HAIVELESS senseless, meaningless → 1804 Sc.
► HALF-WITTED lacking or deficient in common sense or reason; simple; senseless → c1645 obs.
► HEADLESS of things, actions, etc.: senseless, stupid → 1586
► IDIOTICAL idiotic, senseless, stupid → 1751 Sc.
► IDLE void of meaning or sense; foolish, silly, incoherent; also, of persons: light-headed, out of one’s mind, delirious → 1548 obs.
► INSANE idiotic, utterly senseless, irrational, obsessive → M19
► LUNK-HEADED idiotic, senseless → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► MENSELESS thoughtless, silly, foolish; senseless → 1809 Sc.
► RAN-DAN senseless; idle; disorderly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SACKLESS lacking common sense; silly; foolish; stupid; thoughtless; useless, awkward → 1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SAKELESS without sense or gumption; silly, foolish, lacking drive or energy, sloppy, careless → 1820 Sc.
► SALTLESS senseless, without wit → 1810 Sc.
► SART-AND-FAIR stupid, senseless, idiotic → 1746 Eng. dial.
► SCATTER-WITTED senseless, harebrained → 1867 Sc.
► SKY WEST AND CROOKED helpless, senseless → 1905 Amer. dial.
► SKY WESTERN CROOKED helpless, senseless → 1909 Amer. dial.
► TAIVERT idle, foolish, senseless, half-witted, raving → 1823 Sc.
► UNFARRANT ill-informed, senseless, without quickness of apprehension; rude, unmannerly → 1838 Sc.
► UNWITLESS senseless, insensible → a1225 obs.
► VAIN of persons: devoid of sense or wisdom; foolish, silly, thoughtless; of an idle or futile nature or disposition → 1390 rare or obs.
► WANT-WIT witless, senseless → 1894
► ZATENFARE stupid, senseless, idiotic → 1746 Eng. dial.
► ZONED dazed and senseless; oblivious → 1995 US sl. (Bk.)
ADVERBS
► VAINLY foolishly, senselessly, thoughtlessly → 1588 obs.
NOUNS
► BALA coarse or senseless talk → E19 sl.
► BALDERDASH a senseless jumble of words; nonsense, trash, spoken or written → 1674
► INANITY lack of ideas or sense; frivolity; senselessness, silliness → 1756
► LAST YEAR’S BIRD’S NEST something utterly worthless, senseless, outmoded, or untidy → 1905 Amer. dial.
► LAST YEAR’S CROW’S NEST something utterly worthless, senseless, outmoded, or untidy → 1950 Amer. dial.
► LAST YEAR’S WASP NEST something utterly worthless, senseless, outmoded, or untidy → 1986 Amer. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BAGPIPE an inflated and senseless talker; a windbag; a long-winded monotonous speaker; a tedious chatterbox→ 1603
► BOSTHOON an awkward fellow; a tactless, senseless person→ 1830 Irish
► DAFF one deficient in sense or in proper spirit; a simpleton, a fool; a coward → c1325 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
► FAT-HEAD one having a fat head; a stupid dolt; a senseless fellow; an oaf; one whose brain is composed of fat and is therefore useless → 1842
► GAMPHREL ► GAMPHRELL a stupid, foolish, or senseless person; a fool, a blockhead, an idiot → 1729 Sc.
► GUMP a stupid, foolish, or awkward person; an idiot; a senseless person; a dolt → 1825 Amer. dial.
► GUMP-HEAD a stupid, foolish, or awkward person; an idiot; a senseless person; a dolt → 1916 Amer. dial.
► GUMPY a stupid, foolish, or awkward person; an idiot; a senseless person; a dolt → 1892 Amer. dial.
► HAIVREL ► HAVEREL ► HAVERIL one who talks without sense, one who engages in empty, idle talk → a1818 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► HOWFING a clumsy, awkward, senseless person → 1513 Sc.
► LACKBRAIN one who is destitute of sense or brains; a stupid fellow; one that wants wit → 1790 obs. (Bk.)
► MOAK a senseless, foolish fellow; a bore → 1855
► MOLDWARP ► MOULDWARP a stupid, worthless, or good-for-nothing person; a senseless person; a dolt → 1928 Amer. dial.
► MORTWORP a stupid, worthless, or good-for-nothing person; a senseless person; a dolt → c1938 Amer. dial.
► PADDICK a stupid, senseless person → 1895 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PATE-HEAD a silly, senseless person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SACKLESS a weak, senseless person; a helpless, clumsy fellow → 1778 Eng. dial.
► SCATTER-WIT ► SCATTER-WITS a reckless, senseless person → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SILLY BOY GOT NONE a senseless person → Brit. sl.
► SPACE CASE a person lacking common sense; one who is out of touch; an airhead; a crazy person → 1981 US sl.
► SPACE COOKIE a person lacking common sense; one who is out of touch; an airhead; a crazy person → 1983 US sl.
► SPACE GHOST a person lacking common sense; one who is out of touch; an airhead; a crazy person → 1997US sl.
► TAWPY a silly person; a simpleton; a foolish, senseless, or thoughtless girl or woman; a headstrong, untidy girl → 1728 Sc.
► WANT-WIT one who lacks wit or sense; a fool → 1448-9
► YAWNY an idiotic or senseless person; a fool; a simpleton; a dolt → 1887 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
PHRASES
► DON’T HAVE ENOUGH SENSE TO POUND SAND has no sense at all → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DON’T KNOW ENOUGH TO LAP SALT to be thoroughly stupid, have no common sense → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DON’T KNOW ENOUGH TO POUR WATER OUT OF A BOAT has no common sense at all → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HAIR AND HEAD, AN’ THAT’S ALL said of one without brains or sense → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HE DOESN’T KNOW WHETHER HE’S AFOOT OR AHOSSBACK he is very puzzled or is in a quandary, or doesn’t have any common sense → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► NOT TO KNOW BEANS FROM BARLEY to very stupid; to lack common sense → 1954 Amer. dial.
► NOT TO KNOW BEANS FROM BARLEY IF THE BAGS WERE OPEN to be very stupid; to lack common sense → 1965 Amer. dial.
► THE BIGGER THE FIRE, THE BIGGER THE FOOL the more noise a man makes, the less sense he speaks → 1890s Aust.
VERBS
► MAWK to go about stupidly; to move in a senseless manner → 1740 Eng. dial.
► NAFF to talk in a pert, senseless way; to argue snappishly, esp. of children and persons of diminutive appearance → Bk1903 Sc.
► UNSENSE to render senseless or insensible; to stun with a blow or fall → 1892 Eng. dial.