ADJECTIVE
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having no justifying cause or reason
an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change
a senseless, causeless murder
a causeless war that never had an aim -
having no cause or apparent cause
we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times
fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune
a causeless miracle
How To Use causeless In A Sentence
- Pro 26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
- I would not, causelessly, alarm my husband: nor would The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
- When he awoke, and sprang up causelessly frightened, the words were in his ears, as if her voice had slowly spoken them at his pillow, to break his rest: βHe withers away in his prison; I wither away in mine; inexorable justice is done; what do I owe on this score!β Little Dorrit
- The universe emerges randomly and causelessly out of space. Times, Sunday Times
- a causeless war that never had an aim
- But the third has its roots apparently in mere haphazard and causelessness, and isn't explicable by any means whatsoever, and yet is far and away the violentest of the three. My Friend Prospero
- Reader! when you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent causelessness, be sure that there is a canker somewhere, and a canker not the less deeply corroding because concealed. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
- The same kind of quick but quiet movement in the tide happened a few years since at Chiloe, during a slight earthquake, and created much causeless alarm. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- The causelessness of all this fuff stirred my own bile. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
- She expostulated upon his having so causelessly terrified her, and enquired why he came so disguised. Camilla