单词 | non-significative |
释义 | non-significativeadj. Not signifying anything; meaningless. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [adjective] emptya1225 sleevelessc1450 dumb1531 insensible1538 senseless1579 weetless1579 unsignificant1603 surd1605 matterless1612 unmeaning1632 non-significative1633 brute1642 shelly1648 insignificant1651 insignificative1660 unsignificative1664 unsignifying1665 unsensed1667 meaningless1728 bilka1734 meanless1734 inexpressive1744 unideal1751 unexpressive1755 idealess1793 unsuggestive1797 tenorless1821 themeless1840 nonsensible1851 inarticulate1855 purportless1865 expressionless1871 vacuous1872 contentless1886 unmeaningful1897 1633 W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies i. vii. 84 He shall perceave some non significative to be the speciall to the Genus of a significative cere[mony]. 1941 Philos. Rev. 50 320 The distinction..between the significative and the non-significative occurrence of psychical events. 1993 A. Broadie Introd. Medieval Logic (ed. 2) ii. 21 Medieval logicians were accustomed to make a distinction between significative and non-significative terms. The latter are what we should now call nonsense words. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1633 |
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