meaningless

[ mee-ning-lis ]

/ ˈmi nɪŋ lɪs /

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adjective

without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.

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Origin of meaningless

First recorded in 1790–1800; meaning + -less

OTHER WORDS FROM meaningless

mean·ing·less·ly, adverbmean·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 Magazine
The 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 Magazine
For 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|Digiday
It’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.
The member of Congress who’s trying to stop QAnon|Rebecca Heilweil|October 9, 2020|Vox

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|DAILY BEAST
It was the meaninglessness that seemed to leap out upon me wherever I turned my eyes.
The Blue Germ|Martin Swayne
The commonness, the triviality, the immediate meaninglessness of it all drove her to frenzy.
The Rainbow|D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Leilah heard what to her was the meaninglessness of technical terms.
The Monster|Edgar Saltus
Jarl 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 Blish
This 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

meaningless

/ (ˈmiːnɪŋlɪs) /

adjective

futile or empty of meaning

Derived forms of meaningless

meaninglessly, adverbmeaninglessness, noun

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