Definition of Meaninglessly

1. Adverb. In a meaningless manner; nonsensically. ¹

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Definition of Meaninglessly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meaninglessly

meaners
meanes
meaness
meanest
meaneth
meanie
meanies
meanin'
meaning
meaning(a)
meaning of life
meaningful
meaningfully
meaningfulness
meaningless
meaninglessly (current term)
meaninglessness
meaningly
meanings
meanish
meanless
meanly
meanness
meannesses
means
means-test
means-tested
means of exchange
means of production

Literary usage of Meaninglessly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1910)
">rocess, it is meaninglessly generated to be as meaninglessly snuffed out ; and the sole rôle of ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"207. meaninglessly (me'ning-les-li), adv. Without meaning or significance. [Rare.] A fact inexplicable on the theory that the tenses are used meaninglessly, ..."

3. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"He was talking quite meaninglessly, only watching her. Her grey eyes at last met his. They looked dumb with humiliation, pleading with a kind of captive ..."

4. The Interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (1913)
"The numeral 18, with which the judgment in the dream is meaninglessly connected, still preserves a trace of the context from which the real judgment was ..."

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