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meaningless

Syllables: mean·ing·less/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/

meaningless adjective: lacking meaning.

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Adjective

meaningless (comparative more meaningless, superlative most meaningless)

  1. Lacking meaning.
    • 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.2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013
    Antonyms:
    meaningful, sensical
  2. Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
    • 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.2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2013

meaningless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

meaningless in Hindi

lacking meaning
अर्थहीन arthhīn, निरर्थक nirarthak
insignificant
तुच्छ tucch, नगण्य nagaṇya

meaningless in Tamil

பொருளற்ற, சொற்பொருத்தம்

meaningless in Marathi

अर्थहीन

meaningless in Urdu

اناپ شناپ, بیکار, بےمعنی, لغو, مہمل, اوٹ پٹانگ
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meaningless in Bengali
অর্থহীন orthohin
meaningless in Telugu
అర్థంలేని arthaṁlēni
meaningless in Malayalam
നിരർത്ഥകമായ, അർത്ഥമില്ലാത്ത, കഥയില്ലാത്ത, മനസ്സിലാക്കാനാവാത്ത
meaningless in Kannada
ಅನರ್ಥ, ಅನರ್ಥಕ, ಅಪಾರ್ಥ, ವ್ಯರ್ಥ
meaningless in Punjabi
ਅਰਥਹੀਣ
meaningless in Gujarati
પોલું polũ
meaningless in Odia
ଅର୍ଥହୀନ
meaningless in Nepali
अर्थहीन
meaningless in Thai
ไม่มีความหมาย mai-mii-kwaam-mǎai, ไร้ความหมาย rái-kwaam-mǎai
meaningless in Vietnamese
vô nghĩa

Examples of meaningless in a sentence

  • Among historians he was a maverick because of his belief that history is meaningless.
  • Social networking will turn us all into facelessly meaningless numbers on a screen.
  • Life is meaningless and we are all going to die.

All 40 example sentences with meaningless

Synonyms of meaningless

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of meaningless

Forms of meaningless

comparativemore meaningless
superlativemost meaningless

Origin of meaningless

From meaning + -less.

Words formed from meaningless

Questions about meaningless

What does meaningless mean?
Meaningless means lacking meaning.
What is meaningless in Hindi?
Meaningless in Hindi is अर्थहीन (arthhīn), निरर्थक (nirarthak), तुच्छ (tucch). See Meaningless meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is meaningless?
Meaningless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce meaningless?
Meaningless is pronounced /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/.

Words near meaningless in the dictionary

  1. meaninged
  2. meaningful
  3. meaningfully
  4. meaningfulness
  5. meaningfulnesses
  6. meaningless
  7. meaninglessly
  8. meaninglessness
  9. meaninglessnesses
  10. meaningly
  11. meaningness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: meaningless (page history and authors); meaningless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meaningless (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meaningless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অর্থহীন (Bengali) (page history and authors); meaningless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); meaningless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meaningless (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); પોલું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); meaningless (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meaningless (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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