meaningless

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meaningless - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  meaningless \meaningless\ adj.
     having no meaning; of no value; as, a meaningless endeavor; a
     meaningless life; a meaningless explanation. Opposite of
     meaningful. [Narrower terms: insignificant ; {mindless, unmeaning ; {nonsense(prenominal), nonsensical ; {pointless, purposeless ] Also See: {insignificant
         , unimportant,
     purposeless, unimportant.
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  Meaning \Mean"ing\, n.
     1. That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim;
        object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.
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              If there be any good meaning towards you. --Shak.
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     2. That which is signified, whether by act lanquage;
        signification; sense; import; as, the meaning of a hint.
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     3. Sense; power of thinking. [R.]
        [1913 Webster] -- Mean"ing*less, a. -- Mean"ing*ly,
        adv.
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meaningless - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  meaningless
      adj 1: having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless
             endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but
             meaningless explanation" [syn: meaningless,
             nonmeaningful] [ant: meaningful]

meaningless - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "meaningless":
     absurd, aimless, amorphous, asinine, blank, bootless, capricious,
     casual, designless, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous,
     disinclined to communicate, disjunct, disordered, dispersed,
     disproportionate, empty, erratic, fatuous, feckless, fitful,
     foolish, formless, frivolous, fustian, garbled, good-for-nothing,
     gratuitous, haphazard, hit-or-miss, hollow, immethodical,
     importless, impotent, inane, inchoate, incoherent, inconsequential,
     indiscriminate, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious,
     insignificant, insubstantial, irregular, irrelevant, misshapen,
     no go, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonsensical, nonsymmetrical,
     nonsystematic, nonuniform, nugatory, null, of no use, orderless,
     paltry, phatic, planless, pointless, preposterous, promiscuous,
     puny, purportless, purposeless, random, ridiculous, scrambled,
     secretive, senseless, shapeless, silly, spasmodic, sporadic,
     straggling, straggly, superfluous, systemless, trifling, trivial,
     unarranged, unavailing, unclassified, uncommunicative,
     unconversable, undirected, ungraded, unimportant, unjoined,
     unmeaning, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unpurposed,
     unsignificant, unsociable, unsorted, unsubstantial, unsymmetrical,
     unsystematic, ununiform, useless, vacant, vacuous, vague, vain,
     valueless, wandering, worthless