Definition of Causeless

1. Adjective. Having no justifying cause or reason. "An apparently arbitrary and reasonless change"

Exact synonyms: Reasonless
Similar to: Unmotivated

2. Adjective. Having no cause or apparent cause. "We cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times"
Exact synonyms: Fortuitous, Uncaused
Similar to: Unintended
Derivative terms: Fortuitousness

Definition of Causeless

1. a. 1. Self- originating; uncreated.

2. adv. Without cause or reason.

Definition of Causeless

1. Adjective. Having no obvious cause; fortuitous or inexplicable ¹

2. Adjective. groundless or unreasonable ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Causeless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Causeless

causatively
causatives
cause
cause a stir
cause celebre
cause célèbre
cause of action
cause of death
cause to be perceived
cause to sleep
caused
causedness
causee
causees
causeful
causeless (current term)
causelessly
causelessness
causen
causer
causerie
causeries
causers
causes
causes of action
causes of cancer
causest
causeth
causeway
causewayed

Literary usage of Causeless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Edward Archibald Allen, David Josiah Brewer, William Schuyler (1900)
"OF causeless COMPLAINING Complete. A causeless complaint is an expostulation fram'd upon no ground. These are the manners of a querulous wayward man: That ..."

2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Winning mean prey by causeless strife, Wrenching from ruined Lowland swain 130 His herds and harvest reared in vain, — Methinks a soul like thine should ..."

3. Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1851)
"causeless grumblings in New Brunswick.—Fall of snow.—Purple colour of the sky.—Clearness of the moonlight sky.—Danger of too much clearing of the native ..."

4. War and World Government by Frank Crane (1915)
"THE causeless WAR THERE have been wars and wars in the history of the world, ... It is as causeless as a free fight among drunken loafers in a mining camp. ..."

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