Translation
meaningless, nonsensical
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from sen ('without'), the root senc- ('meaning', from Latin sensus) and the adjective ending -a. Nothing was borrowed whole: the word is assembled, and a learner who knows the three pieces can read it on sight.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound on a Latin root
- Root
- sen + senco + -a
- English cognates
- sense, sensible
Examples
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Your words are utterly meaningless.
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A plan like that is nonsensical and bad.
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He wrote a long but nonsensical letter.
A textbook build: plus plus -a, so "without-meaning-ish".
The preposition doing duty as a prefix is one of Esperanto's quiet
economies, and the same trick gives senhoma, and .
Do not stretch it to cover the English word senseless in its other jobs.
A person knocked out cold is senkonscia, and a brutal act is .
is only ever about a thing that fails to mean anything.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 8: sensenca, ŝoki, valida and 7 more words.