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unmeaning

/ʌnˈmiːnɪŋ/

unmeaning adjective: having no meaning or significance.

Adjective

unmeaning (comparative more unmeaning, superlative most unmeaning)

  1. (dated) Having no meaning or significance.
    • 'Tis a poor Ideot Boy, / Who sits in the Sun, and twirls a Bough about, / His weak eyes seeth'd in most unmeaning tears.1813, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Remorse. A Tragedy, […], 2nd edition, London: […] W. Pople, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 25
    • The danger is plainly in the other direction,—to regard all truth as scientific, to reverence statistics, to attempt to gauge the soul, to measure the affections, and thus to make all true religion impossible, by limiting our faith by our knowledge, and by dismissing those terrible problems of...1858, Thomas Henry Burrowes, James Pyle Wickersham, Elnathan Elisha Higbee, The Pennsylvania School Journal, page 281

Noun

unmeaning (uncountable)

  1. Absence of meaning; meaninglessness.

unmeaning meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Sanskrit

unmeaning in Urdu

بےجوڑ, بےمعنی, لغو, مہمل

unmeaning in Malayalam

അർത്ഥമില്ലാത്ത, ഉദ്ദേശ്യരഹിത, അസംഗതമായ, അർത്ഥശൂന്യമായ

unmeaning in Sanskrit

unmeaning, nonsensical MBh
निरर्थक nirarthaka
unmeaning, nonsensical
अबद्ध abaddha
unmeaning, inconsistent
व्यर्थ vyartha

Synonyms of unmeaning

Forms of unmeaning

comparativemore unmeaning
superlativemost unmeaning

Origin of unmeaning

From un- + meaning.

Words formed from unmeaning

Questions about unmeaning

What does unmeaning mean?
Unmeaning means having no meaning or significance.
What is unmeaning in Urdu?
Unmeaning in Urdu is بےجوڑ, بےمعنی, لغو. See Unmeaning meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is unmeaning?
Unmeaning can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce unmeaning?
Unmeaning is pronounced /ʌnˈmiːnɪŋ/.

Words near unmeaning in the dictionary

  1. unmayoral
  2. unmayorlike
  3. unmealy
  4. unmean
  5. unmeandering
  6. unmeaning
  7. unmeaningful
  8. unmeaningfully
  9. unmeaningly
  10. unmeaningness
  11. unmeaningnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unmeaning (page history and authors); unmeaning (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unmeaning (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अबद्ध (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). 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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