meaningless
adjective
without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant.
meaninglessly
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a word derived from
meaningless.
Example Sentences
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Before the audience has its bearings, “Hell Is for Children” is blaring meaninglessly onto a set that is meant to be “modern, post-war Verona” but looks more like Stalingrad under a disco strobe light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
As he worked a crowd, “His eyes rolled, his body language was inappropriate and weird, and his hand flew around meaninglessly in odd directions.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2020
The whole series felt like a threadbare film idea meaninglessly stretched to total breaking point.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2016
That’s not the same as describing the press writ large—let alone the even more meaninglessly capacious term “the media”—as “dishonest.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 28, 2016
He was talking quite meaninglessly, only watching her.
From Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
