causeless

Questions about causeless

What does causeless mean?

causeless means "having no justifying cause or reason". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in causeless?

causeless has 3 syllables and divides as cau-se-less under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for causeless?

Close synonyms include reasonless, fortuitous, uncaused. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is causeless a common word?

causeless is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.