1.
[syn: meaningless, nonmeaningful]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The 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.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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