meaningless
Syllables: mean·ing·less/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/
meaningless adjective: lacking meaning.
Adjective
meaningless (comparative more meaningless, superlative most meaningless)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- nonsensical, senseless
- Antonyms:
- meaningful, sensical
- 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
- Synonyms:
- negligible, trivial, unmeaningful, hollow
- Antonyms:
- meaningful, significant
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
More languagesFewer languages
- 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.
Synonyms of meaningless
Antonyms
Forms of meaningless
| comparative | more meaningless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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
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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