meaningless
[mee-ning-lis]
adjective
without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
Origin of meaningless
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Related Words for meaninglessness
emptiness, ineffectiveness, uselessness, idleness, hollowness, vanity, senselessness, frivolousness, ineffectuality, meaninglessness, vainnessExamples from the Web for meaninglessness
Contemporary Examples of meaninglessness
We scream at how senseless the violence seems, how meaninglessness the tragedy.
Historical Examples of meaninglessness
Leilah heard what to her was the meaninglessness of technical terms.
The MonsterEdgar Saltus
Bojo attempted to burst in on the stream of meaninglessness and repeated phrases.
Making MoneyOwen Johnson
It was distress of soul which made her wince now and then; it was wrung by the emptiness and meaninglessness of her existence.
Ditte: Girl Alive!Martin Andersen Nexo
It was the meaninglessness that seemed to leap out upon me wherever I turned my eyes.
The Blue GermMartin Swayne
This trick of repetition reaches the climax of meaninglessness in "The Ways of the Hour."
James Fenimore CooperThomas R. Lounsbury
meaningless
adjective
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