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/ ˈmi nɪŋ lɪs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
Origin of meaningless First recorded in 1790–1800; meaning + -less
OTHER WORDS FROM meaningless mean·ing·less·ly, adverb mean·ing·less·ness, noun Words nearby meaningless mean free path, meanie, meaning, meaningful, meaningful relationship, meaningless , mean length of utterance, mean lethal dose, mean life, mean line, meanly
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Example sentences from the Web for meaningless If even one of those four people is somebody that didn't actually get the vaccine, the results are meaningless .
Uh Oh: Ebola Vaccine Trials Stop | Leigh Cowart| December 19, 2014| DAILY BEAST
We are at a dead end in a meaningless war, and we are paying the bill for this fighting every day.
Local Truces Are Syria’s Sad Little Pieces of Peace | Joshua Hersh| November 18, 2014| DAILY BEAST
It is meaningless , that is, except to the meddlers who achieve it.
America’s Meddlers Are Our Worst Enemies | Stefan Beck| October 3, 2014| DAILY BEAST
“I have come to realize that activism in an al Qaida-held area not only is deadly, but meaningless ,” he concluded.
Goodbye to the Last of Syria’s Good Guys | Joshua Hersh| October 2, 2014| DAILY BEAST
The result is that the term Russian River Valley on a label is meaningless .
Napa’s Earthquake Is Not The Only Thing Shaking The Vineyards | Clive Irving| August 31, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Who could care for the pointless repartees of defunct Grand Dukes, or the meaningless caprices of long-buried Archduchesses?
Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. | Charles James Lever
He was hardly expected, because promises are meaningless phrases in the mouths of Dartmoor folk.
Furze the Cruel | John Trevena
These lists of unfamiliar names look like the dbris of a quarry—hard, meaningless , and to us useless.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Joshua | William Garden Blaikie
A secret compound with a meaningless title is presumptively a fraud.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why | Martha M. Allen
These words are said to have been uttered when the English had been discovered, but then they would have been meaningless .
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) | Anatole France
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British Dictionary definitions for meaningless adjective futile or empty of meaning
Derived forms of meaningless meaninglessly , adverb meaninglessness , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to meaningless worthless, insignificant, trivial, senseless, inconsequential, hollow, unimportant, useless, absurd, pointless, vague, empty, futile, aimless, blank, double-talk, feckless, fustian, good-for-nothing, hot air