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
Howl is an astounding screed, an interminable sewer of a poem that sucks in all the feculence, malignity and unmeaning slime of modern life and spews them with tremendous momentum into the reader's mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Antonioni's point is unmistakable: his hero, like Orpheus, has entered Hades, the contemporary hell of unmeaning materialism� will he find there the love, the soul, the vital core of meaning he has lost?
From Time Magazine Archive
He wrote: "That unmeaning and abominable custom �swearing."
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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