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meaningless

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[ US /ˈminɪŋɫəs/ ]
[ UK /mˈiːnɪŋləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having no meaning or direction or purpose
    a meaningless life
    a verbose but meaningless explanation
    a meaningless endeavor
  2. producing no result or effect
    a futile effort
    the therapy was ineffectual
    an otiose undertaking
    an unavailing attempt

How To Use meaningless In A Sentence

  • Chess takes the place of all the other passions, and the people in his life, including his parents, become shadowy, meaningless figures.
  • So get on down the bierkeller, even if everyone knows the figures are next to meaningless. Times, Sunday Times
  • The title of the appointment was rather meaningless as he soon had his own surgical wards, where his skills in intestinal surgery and liver resection were legendary.
  • He stood there for hours that night and stared into something he knew would make him a meaningless cipher in its light, make him ambiguous, coagulant dust in relationship to the size of a thing he could never comprehend, only quiver to imagine. Southern Cross
  • He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth. Vandover and the Brute
  • In our day the false currency of meaningless words has been made to circulate in quantity.
  • These tests were so seriously flawed as to render the results meaningless.
  • Cliche is symptomatic of an entropic democracy where meaningless statements are repeated unconsciously by the masses.
  • Good, bad, or meaningless, there it will be: bunchy with fat or sagging from the bone, fading, freckling, wrinkling, and drooping so long as flesh endures. Beginner’s Grace
  • The history of western commentaries on ancient Mesoamerican objects is full of extravagant claims made on the basis of such meaningless formal convergences.
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