causeless
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English causelees, causeles; equivalent to cause + -less.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
causeless (comparative more causeless, superlative most causeless)
- Having no obvious cause; fortuitous or inexplicable.
- Synonyms: by accident, incidental, random; see also Thesaurus:accidental
- Groundless or unreasonable.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Pilgrimes Arrivall at Constantinople, Entertainment, and Departure”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book I, pages 22–23:
- [H]e […] by his overcarefulneſſe and cauſeleſſe ſuſpicion, deprived himſelf of this benefit, and implunged himſelf in much juſt hatred for his unjuſt dealing and treachery.
- 1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, →OCLC, Act III, page 36:
- Alas my fears are cauſless, and ungrounded, / Fantaſtick dreams, and melancholick fumes / Of crazy ſtomacks, and diſtempered brains: / Has this convinc'd you?
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Translations[edit]
having no obvious cause
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groundless
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