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Definition of Meaningless
1. Adjective. Having no meaning or direction or purpose. "A verbose but meaningless explanation"
Also: Unimportant, Purposeless, Insignificant, Unimportant
Similar to: Empty, Hollow, Vacuous, Insignificant, Mindless, Nonsense, Nonsensical
Antonyms: Meaningful
Derivative terms: Meaninglessness
Definition of Meaningless
1. Adjective. Lacking meaning ¹
2. Adjective. insignificant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meaningless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meaningless
Literary usage of Meaningless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1907)
"In the laboratory studies made with meaningless syllables, it has been found
practically impossible to avoid metrical groupings even when the syllables ..."
2. Navaho Legends by Washington Matthews (1897)
"Truly one his lung for me he brings, (meaningless.) 4. ... (Meaningless refrain
after each stanza.) n. 1. ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"4. unsubstantiality, vanity, hollowness, uselessness; spec, frivolity, vanity,
unsatisfying, unsatisfactoriness, meaningless- ness, triviality, ..."
4. The Value of Money by Benjamin McAlester Anderson (1917)
"I repeat that 1 Where it is not meaningless, as at various points in the theory
of mechanics, the product is always of a different denomination from either ..."
5. Fallacies: A View of Logic from the Practical Side by Alfred Sidgwick (1884)
"Meaningless TERM. The third class of verbal assertions is far less simple in ...
But in the first place any term may be meaningless either (1) simply,—ie ..."
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