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unmeaningly

unmeaningly adverb: without any meaning.

Adverb

unmeaningly (comparative more unmeaningly, superlative most unmeaningly)

  1. Without any meaning.
    • Apropos of Van Balen, an artist who painted me lately had painted a blackamoor praying; and not filling his canvas, stuffed in his little girl aside of a blacky gaping at him unmeaningly; and then did not know what to call it.1942, Eva Beatrice Dykes, The Negro in English Romantic Thought, page 91
  2. Unintentionally.
    • All unmeaningly I started a little argument that furnished you with some splendid discussions, and, though my name wasn't mentioned, I'll admit it.1929, Printers' Ink, volume 147, page 128

Forms of unmeaningly

comparativemore unmeaningly
superlativemost unmeaningly

Origin of unmeaningly

From unmeaning + -ly.

Questions about unmeaningly

What does unmeaningly mean?
Unmeaningly means without any meaning.
What part of speech is unmeaningly?
Unmeaningly is an adverb.

Words near unmeaningly in the dictionary

  1. unmean
  2. unmeandering
  3. unmeaning
  4. unmeaningful
  5. unmeaningfully
  6. unmeaningly
  7. unmeaningness
  8. unmeaningnesses
  9. unmeans
  10. unmeant
  11. unmeasurability

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