inane

4 definitions found

inane - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Inane \In*ane"\, a. [L. inanis.]
     Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence;
     purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless. "Vague and
     inane instincts." --I. Taylor. -- In*ane"ly, adv.
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  Inane \In*ane"\, n.
     That which is void or empty. [R.]
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           The undistinguishable inane of infinite space. --Locke.
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inane - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  inane
      adj 1: devoid of intelligence [syn: asinine, fatuous,
             inane, mindless, vacuous]

inane - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  254 Moby Thesaurus words for "inane":
     absurd, aimless, airy, apish, arid, asinine, awkward, bare, barren,
     batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blah, bland, blank,
     blankminded, bleached, bloodless, bonkers, bootless, brainless,
     buffoonish, callow, calm, catchpenny, characterless, clear,
     cockeyed, cold, colorless, counterproductive, crazy, credulous,
     cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dead, designless, devoid, dilute,
     diluted, dippy, doting, dotty, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
     driveling, dry, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, effete, elephantine,
     empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled,
     etiolated, fade, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feckless, flaky,
     flat, flavorless, flimsy, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fribble,
     fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, fuddled, futile, gaga,
     garbled, gauche, goofy, green, groping, gruelly, gulled, heavy,
     ho-hum, hollow, idiotic, idle, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic,
     importless, inadequate, incogitant, indifferent, ineffective,
     ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexcitable, inexperienced,
     infatuated, innocent, innocuous, inoperative, insane,
     insignificant, insipid, invalid, jejune, know-nothing, kooky,
     laughable, leaden, lifeless, light, loony, low-spirited, ludicrous,
     lunatic, mad, maudlin, meaningless, mild, milk-and-water, moronic,
     naive, namby-pamby, nescient, nirvanic, nonconnotative,
     nondenotative, nonsensical, nugacious, nugatory, null,
     null and void, nuts, nutty, oblivious, of no force, otiose, pale,
     pallid, pappy, passive, pedestrian, phatic, plodding, pointless,
     poky, ponderous, preposterous, pulpy, purportless, purposeless,
     quietistic, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, raw, relaxed, ridiculous,
     risible, sapless, sappy, savorless, scatterbrained, scrambled,
     screwy, senseless, sentimental, shallow, silly, simple, slender,
     slight, slow, solemn, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff,
     stodgy, strange to, stuffy, stupid, superficial, tasteless,
     tedious, tentative, thin, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil,
     trifling, trite, trivial, unacquainted, unapprized, unavailing,
     uncomprehending, unconversant, unenlightened, unfamiliar,
     unflavored, unideaed, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated,
     unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unlively, unmeaning,
     unoccupied, unposted, unreasonable, unreasoning, unrelieved,
     unripe, unsavory, unsignificant, unsure, unthinking, unversed,
     useless, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, void, wacky, washy, watered,
     watered-down, watery, weak, wet, white, windy, wishy-washy,
     with nothing inside, without content, witless, wooden