unmeaning
Americanadjective
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not meaning anything; devoid of intelligence, sense, or significance, as words or actions; pointless; empty.
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expressionless, vacant, or unintelligent, as the face; insipid.
adjective
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having no meaning
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showing no intelligence; vacant
an unmeaning face
Other Word Forms
- unmeaningly adverb
- unmeaningness noun
Etymology
Origin of unmeaning
Example Sentences
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Noah Webster, in his 1828 American Dictionary, defined slang as "low, vulgar, unmeaning."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir: Admiral Anderson has a worthy predecessor in his war on profanity, one who was equally adamant about "that unmeaning and abominable custom, swearing."
From Time Magazine Archive
The kitchen, the social order, the whole vast conspiracy of unmeaning that, as Playwright Wesker sees it, prisons and demeans mankind, is interrupted, annulled.
From Time Magazine Archive
He sings in a doubtful falsetto and his movements are unmeaning, and frequently absurd.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old woman, wrinkled, dirty, clothed in an ill-sewn sack of sealskin, pointed at the little silken dress and at herself, and smiled: a sweet, unmeaning smile, like a baby’s.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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