Word.ws English Dictionary

Word of the Day:

meaningless

adjective/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/

grayscale photo of chair near window
Photo by Elimende Inagella on Unsplash

What It Means

Lacking meaning.

Insignificant; not worthy of importance.

The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.

See the entry

Meaningless in Context

“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

More example sentences

Did You Know?

From meaning + -less.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: meaningless (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.

Cite this entry: “meaningless.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/meaningless. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Latest Words of the Day

More from Word of the Day