What's the difference between needless and senseless?

Needless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no need.
  • (a.) Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
  • (a.) Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people' Read more In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.
  • (2) Needless to say, the place is now awash in self-flagellation.
  • (3) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
  • (4) Acknowledging that such needless expense is meat and drink to enemies of the European idea, MEPs led by the parliament's vice-president, Edward McMillan-Scott, have launched a "Single Seat" campaign to abandon "Alcatraz", as the Strasbourg building is known to some of its inmates.
  • (5) Its chief executive, Andy Cole, warned: "The lives of England's sickest babies are at risk by needless cuts to the neonatal nursing workforce."
  • (6) It permits use of both feet to operate surgical modalities, decreases microscope positioning time, and decreases needless hand movements.
  • (7) Shelvey had been told before the game by his manager to “wise up” against needless bookings.
  • (8) Cameroon midfielder Alex Song was sent off before half-time for a needless elbow in the back of Croatia's Mario Mandzukic near the halfway line, leaving his side to battle with 10 men for the majority of the game.
  • (9) Needless pain and anxiety can therefore be avoided for many AML patients.
  • (10) Needlessly high doses are bound to cause avoidable unwanted effects in a proportion of patients.
  • (11) Needless to say, BoKlok's brains have grappled with the conundrum.
  • (12) Millions of British will pay a higher price – the needless squandering of their lives.
  • (13) In some cases these errors led to needless radiotherapy and to an unnecessarily poor prognosis being given.
  • (14) This clause has given developers a much freer licence to force their plans through the system regardless of constraints, on the basis that local planning policies represent needless “burdens” on their pockets.
  • (15) 4.32pm BST Summary Here's a summary of what the president said: • The shutdown hurt the economy and families in a needless "self-inflicted crisis."
  • (16) A union spokesman said: "Unite has made recommendations to Ineos as way to save jobs and prevent needless harm to this plant and the local community.
  • (17) Just look at the needless intermediary company created by Dmitry Firtash in 2004 to buy gas from Russia and sell it to Ukraine, making more than $600m a year.
  • (18) Use of this technic will spare some patients needless radical procedures and should improve long-term cure rates by identifying those patients with truly localized disease for curative resections.
  • (19) If Moyes felt reprieved when Andros Townsend cut inside and curled a late shot wide, his afternoon was ruined when Paddy McNair needlessly conceded a free-kick, taken near the corner flag by Lee Chung-yong and, deep into stoppage time, an unmarked Benteke rose imperiously to clinch it.
  • (20) The assumption that it is often prevents informed clinical intervention and leads to needless suffering.

Senseless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence."
  • (2) But they need to do all they can to prevent the senseless violence and killing."
  • (3) Nobody can offer, let alone embrace, any rationale for the Newtown assault: it was random, indiscriminate, senseless and deliberate slaughter of innocents.
  • (4) The infant's rights to life without constant pain are also violated by the senseless prolongation of his life and the promotion of wrongful life through the excessive use of modern technology.
  • (5) The promoters added: “We ask at this time that we all continue to support the city of Manchester and all those families affected by this cowardice and senseless violence.
  • (6) "It represents senseless acts of violence against trans and queer bodies beyond the historical lens," says Cassils.
  • (7) Security around the airport was tightened and an investigation into the "terrible, senseless crime" was under way, said Boris Rhein, interior minister for the state of Hesse.
  • (8) Occurring in approximately 2% of adults, OCD consists of recurrent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) or senseless repetitive actions (compulsions).
  • (9) The victims are frequently unidentified and the motive unclear, but the senselessness was all too evident.
  • (10) The frequency of senseless gun-related deaths in America continues unabated.
  • (11) Wenger talked about his side committing "easy mistakes" and he might easily have been referring to Özil's carelessness before the goal that made it 3-1, playing a senseless pass to Mathieu Flamini, then watching Fernandinho steal in to bend a wonderful shot beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
  • (12) On Twitter , Wade lamented what he called another “act of senseless gun violence” which meant “4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON”.
  • (13) The Department for Education has appointed one of its "brokers" to find the school a sponsor, and a local action group is fighting against a plan that scores of local people think is senseless.
  • (14) These senseless murders may amount to war crimes and the perpetrators must be held accountable,” Nicholas Haysom, the UN’s special representative for Afghanistan , said in a statement on Wednesday.
  • (15) The defense secretary, Ash Carter, said in a statement: “My thoughts and prayers – along with those of the men and women of the US Department of Defense – are with the families of those killed in this senseless act of violence and with all those touched by this tragedy.” The Associated Press contributed to this report • This article was amended on 17 July 2015 to correct the spelling of Hixson, Tennessee.
  • (16) If national politics has been breaking your heart or boring you senseless I suggest you talk yourself out of your alienation and tune in for the next couple of weeks, because stuff – it’s going to get interesting.
  • (17) Most Midwestern areas have small cities and towns, and most of our trauma results from accidents, not deliberate, senseless human acts.
  • (18) The Spanish full-back is prone to rashness but the two-footed lunge from behind on Naismith was senseless even by his standards.
  • (19) The brief flurry of liberal street protest in 2011 and 2012 was ruthlessly snuffed out by the Kremlin, and many have suggested that, far from a liberal revolution, the most likely revolt in Russia is the “senseless and merciless” Russian uprising of which Alexander Pushkin wrote.
  • (20) An attempt was made to enhance (by means of instruction) the verbal labeling and recall of schematic pictures which uninformed Ss tended to perceive as senseless.