Meaning of CAUSELESS
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- [adj] having no cause or apparent cause; "a causeless miracle"; "fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune"; "we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times"
- [adj] having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless, causeless murder"; "a causeless war that never had an aim"; "an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change"
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Cause"less\, a.
1. Self-originating; uncreated.
2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless.
My fears are causeless and ungrounded. --Denham.
\Cause"less\, adv.
Without cause or reason.
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| | Related Terms: | | accidental, adventitious, aimless, aleatory, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, designless, destinal, dicey, driftless, dysteleological, fatal, fatidic, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, iffy, incidental, indeterminate, indiscriminate, inexplicable, mindless, promiscuous, purposeless, random, risky, stochastic, stray, unaccountable, uncaused, undetermined, undirected, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unmotivated, unpredictable |
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