meaningless
without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
Origin of meaningless
1Other words from meaningless
- mean·ing·less·ly, adverb
- mean·ing·less·ness, noun
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How to use meaningless in a sentence
If the pieces are put together correctly, the garbling cancels out and the program functions as intended, but each individual piece looks meaningless.
Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography | Erica Klarreich | November 10, 2020 | Quanta MagazineThe password, if you have chosen a good one, is meaningless too.
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End | George Musser | October 29, 2020 | Quanta MagazineFor some, data-driven has been a buzzword, data-driven creative feels almost meaningless, we have to keep thinking what data-driven creative means for us.
‘Bullish that it will be higher’: Bloomberg Media Studios has grown revenue 30% year-on-year | Lucinda Southern | October 15, 2020 | DigidayIt’s not necessarily meaningless, but it’s close to meaningless in the sense that, according to some, this was a problem that Facebook helped to create.
Scale for scale’s sake is almost meaningless, unless you can convert it into something of value.
‘Scale for scale’s sake is almost meaningless’: Axios CEO Jim VandeHei | Pierre Bienaimé | October 6, 2020 | Digiday
We scream at how senseless the violence seems, how meaninglessness the tragedy.
Money and Guns: How We Escape Our Existential Dread | James Poulos | April 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was the meaninglessness that seemed to leap out upon me wherever I turned my eyes.
The Blue Germ | Martin SwayneThe commonness, the triviality, the immediate meaninglessness of it all drove her to frenzy.
The Rainbow | D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceLeilah heard what to her was the meaninglessness of technical terms.
The Monster | Edgar SaltusJarl Eleven's aside, with its many terms he could not understand, had been frightening in its very meaninglessness.
The Thing in the Attic | James Benjamin BlishThis trick of repetition reaches the climax of meaninglessness in "The Ways of the Hour."
James Fenimore Cooper | Thomas R. Lounsbury
British Dictionary definitions for meaningless
/ (ˈmiːnɪŋlɪs) /
futile or empty of meaning
Derived forms of meaningless
- meaninglessly, adverb
- meaninglessness, noun
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