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How to use meaningless in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Meaningless means lacking meaning. Example: “The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.”

Examples of meaningless by meaning

adjectiveLacking meaning.

  • The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.

adjectiveInsignificant; not worthy of importance.

  • All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.
  • 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

More sentences with meaningless

  • Among historians he was a maverick because of his belief that history is meaningless.From the entry maverick
  • Social networking will turn us all into facelessly meaningless numbers on a screen.From the entry facelessly
  • Life is meaningless and we are all going to die.From the entry life
  • Critics slammed the new film, calling it violent and meaningless.From the entry slam
  • The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.From the entry dodge
  • LBJ scores six meaningless points in last forty-five seconds while Warriors keep a seven- to eleven-point lead.2020, Robert Scoop Jackson, The Game is Not a Game […] , Haymarket Books, →ISBN. From the entry LBJ
  • Instead, the speaker tries to fill the silence with unintelligible guttural sounds or meaningless words.2020, Blake J. Neff, chapter 8, in Proclamation!, page 129. From the entry filler word
  • Physical immortality on the polluted planet, where poverty still exists, is meaningless.2019, Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook, Springer, →ISBN, page 853. From the entry equalism
  • Rich and pretty, he shows how meaningless it is to be a man of means.2007 August 5, Richard Corliss, “When Antonioni Blew Up the Movies”, in Time. From the entry of means
  • Not every pen pal likes 'forwards', especially jokes and meaningless emails.2004, Tamara Stevens, What Is Snail Mail?: The Lost Art of Letterwriting, page 27. From the entry forward
  • Now, this may look like meaningless cryptobabble, but it is in fact very funny to adolescent geeks.1995, Aaron Weiss, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Protecting Yourself on the Internet, Que, page 244. From the entry cryptobabble
  • Without such knowledge, 'Maggie' would just be a meaningless pattern of shapes or sounds.1986, David Barrat, Media Sociology, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry word
  • The form ᾿Ιερἀ Πἑτρα shows a further Graecicization whereby the meaningless Πὐτνα has been replaced by Πἑτρα.1985, Raymond A. Brown, Evidence for Pre-Greek Speech on Crete from Greek Alphabetic Sources, Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert. From the entry graecicization
  • His denials were as meaningless as his avouchments, and reputable journalists heard him.1959, Richard H. Rovere, “What He Was and What He Did-1”, in Senator Joe McCarthy, Cleveland: Meridian, published 1963, page 31. From the entry avouchment
  • Or, put differently: the deeper art goes, the more meaningless it should become.1932, William Harlan Hale, Challenge to Defeat: Modern Man in Goethe's World and Spengler's Century, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and…. From the entry mysto-magic
  • That ethics, in short, is a meaningless term to a single, isolated individual.1908, Melvin Linwood Severy, Gillette's Industrial Solution: World Corporation. From the entry otherdom
  • The poem is about agonizing over meaningless decisions.2026 May 26, David Epstein, “The Real Meaning of "The Road Not Taken". It's not about rugged individualism”, in Range Widely [Substack…. From the entry satisficing
  • “These poor exocomps are being tortured with meaningless, repetitive tasks.2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (19:19 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by…. From the entry afoot
  • We make crude visual distinctions and effectively meaningless categorizations based on average skin tones, such as black or white.2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry tone
  • Nine horrible, tedious, meaningless, worthless, baconless, cheeseburgerless, meatless years.2017 December 2, Kevin Shadow-Walker, “Various Randomness”, in What Is Wrong with You? A Collection of My Facebook Status Updates, Kage…. From the entry cheeseburgerless
  • A stego text might become meaningless if words of the cover text are freely replaced to synonyms without considering the context.2013, Kazuhiro Kondo, Multimedia Information Hiding Technologies and Methodologies for Controlling Data, Hershey, P.A.: Information…. From the entry stego
  • The custom of observing a moment of silence before an athletic event to honor dead people strikes me as meaningless.2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 174. From the entry moment of silence
  • They all bear meaningless legends interpuncted with rosettes and dots, signifying the initials of the jeton-master who produced them.2002, Robert Kool, Donald T. Ariel, ’Atiqot, volume 43. From the entry interpunct
  • Without Mind there are only meaningless electrons whirling in whateverness.1992, James Dillet Freeman, The hilltop heart: reflections of a practical mystic, page 33. From the entry whateverness
  • Not even so much as that, for it is Mind that identifies the meaningless whateverness and cries out, "Electrons!"1992, James Dillet Freeman, The hilltop heart: reflections of a practical mystic, page 33. From the entry whateverness
  • “Why bother with just a meaningless mouthful when there’s a much bigger, munchier morsel coming along right behind me?”1987, Jim Lawrence, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, New York, N.Y.: Modern Publishing, Unisystems, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry munchy
  • I particularly like rebi in which the rubric itself is a word, instead of a meaningless collection of letters or symbols.1978, A. Ross Eckler [Jr.], editor, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, page 137. From the entry rebi
  • These ideals have become mere meaningless abstractions or wordmongery.1939, Frontiers of Democracy - Volume 6, page 149. From the entry wordmongery
  • A fundamental covery is that the expressions “reductional division” and “equational division,” those bogies of our schooldays, are meaningless.1937, C. D. Darlington, J. B. S. Haldane, “Foreword”, in Recent Advances in Cytology, page vi. From the entry covery
  • On that line we reach simply the old countersense: "All is Reality" is as meaningless a proposition as "All is Illusion."1905, J. M. Robertson, chapter IV, in Letters on Reasoning, page 225. From the entry countersense
  • Nihilists believe that life is meaningless.2025 May 21, Manisha Krishnan, “IVF Clinic Bombing Suspect Was Linked to ‘Anti-Life’ Ideology. Experts Fear Its Growing Influence”, in…. From the entry antinatalist
  • In the Empire of Atlantium they believe that territorial claims as the basis for legitimate statehood are all but meaningless in the modern globalized world.2015, Nick Middleton, An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist. From the entry Atlantium
  • I think that is the most meaningless sections of the law out of the whole thing, PTA for second and subsequent arms.2004 January 28, Seb, “NEWSLETTER FROM NSW SHOOTERS PARTY January 27 2004”, in aus.politics.guns (Usenet). From the entry pta
  • Thus, the Lieberman clause requiring the couple to "accept the authority of the Conservative bet din" is meaningless in halacha and invalid.2001 July 23, BAC...@vms.huji.ac.il, “Need the strictest rabbi I can find.”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet). From the entry kinyan
  • You will notice that the selection by Hiraf is either meaningless or ambiguous when analyzed, although it has an impressive ring at first reading.1990, Andrew Neher, chapter 7, in The Psychology of Transcendence, New York: Dover, page 284. From the entry amphigory
  • Everyone loves a giveaway (with the notable exceptions of key chains and nail clippers which have been rendered nearly meaningless by repetition).1983, Teleconnect: The Voice of the Telephone Interconnect Industry. From the entry giveaway
  • The pets were called by their euphonyms only when visitors were to be properly impressed; consequently, they paid no attention to the meaningless titles.1969, Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul S. Eriksson, A Treasury of Birdlore, page 195. From the entry euphonym

Meaning of meaningless

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

Full definition of meaningless

Questions about meaningless in a sentence

How do you use meaningless in a sentence?
Meaningless is used as an adjective. For example: “The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.”
What is a short sentence with meaningless?
“All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.”
What does meaningless mean?
Meaningless means lacking meaning.

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