Meaningless

/ˈmiːnɪŋləs/ · adjective

Meaning

Lacking meaning..

Definitions by Sense

1. Lacking meaning.
2. Insignificant; not worthy of importance.

Example Sentences

The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.

As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.

All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

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• more meaningless
• most meaningless

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