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US
/ˈminɪŋɫəs/
]
[ UK /mˈiːnɪŋləs/ ]
[ UK /mˈiːnɪŋləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having no meaning or direction or purpose
a meaningless life
a verbose but meaningless explanation
a meaningless endeavor -
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.