| 释义 |
no-meaning
[f. no a. + meaning n.]
The absence of, or want of, meaning or purpose; unmeaningness; nonsense.
1735Pope Ep. Lady 114 True No-meaning puzzles more than Wit. 1784Cowper Task iv. 74 Cat'racts of declamation thunder here; There forests of no meaning spread the page. 1818Scott Rob Roy i, Owen..endeavoured..to explain my no-meaning, and to cover my retreat. 1834L. Ritchie Wand. by Seine 167 A little ugly, incongruous brick erection..the nature and no-meaning of which we cannot tell. 1882Mrs. Oliphant Lit. Hist. Engl. III. 107 The quaint and delightful no-meaning of some of Shakspeare's snatches of spirit-song. |