senseless

Infinitive complement

try: It seems senseless to try to penetrate behind to some idea of private meaning.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: At last he was carried to his inn still laughing but almost senseless.
• so: Erin at peace at last 22 May It was all so senseless.
• seemingly: Now a cop, Sean is assigned to the case and he and his partner are charged with unraveling the seemingly senseless crime.
• utterly: Students are forced to produce utterly senseless pieces of work about uninteresting topics.
• quite: That statement is a perfect example of hot-weather ' common sense ' which is actually quite senseless.
• apparently: Her apparently senseless activity becomes harder to distinguish from the focused and purposeful traffic of the businessmen and women who brush past her.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

beat: The truly terrifying Tommy wants Rachel, wealth and the odd opportunity to beat people senseless.

Modifies a noun

• slaughter: We hope you will join us in our fight to stamp out the senseless slaughter of billions of helpless insects across the world.
• killing: We have so many senseless killings in our schools today because children no longer respect life.
• tragedy: We could not let this senseless tragedy fade away into the weathered pages of history.
• destruction: Who fights the senseless destruction of our Mother Nature?
• murder: What purpose is there to yesterday's senseless murders?
• violence: I do not agree with senseless violence for need of money or sex.

Used with adjective complement

• bore: On the upside at least you don't have to spend a couple of hours being bored senseless by me.
• knock: No sooner was that said than witness was knocked senseless to the ground.. ... .
• beat: Inside the cell they find a panting Krycek, and Dmitri laying on the floor in a corner, beaten senseless.
• lie: The giant blast wave hurled two of the German gunners from their towers, and they lay senseless on the crown of the dam.
• fall: For a moment only did I lose recollection; I fell senseless on the ground.
• seem: It seems senseless to try to penetrate behind to some idea of private meaning.