meaningless

English

Etymology

meaning +‎ -less

Pronunciation

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Adjective

meaningless (comparative more meaningless, superlative most meaningless)

Lacking meaning.
The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.
Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
- 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
  Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.

Synonyms

(lacking meaning): nonsensical
(not worthy of importance): negligible, trivial

Antonyms

(lacking meaning): meaningful
(not worthy of importance): significant

Derived terms

meaninglessness
meaninglessly

Translations

lacking meaning

Armenian: անիմաստ (hy) (animast)
Azerbaijani: mənasız (az)
Bulgarian: безсмислен (bg) (bezsmislen), безцелен (bg) (bezcelen)
Catalan: sense sentit
Czech: bezvýznamný (cs)
Danish: betydningsløs
Dutch: zinloos (nl), betekenisloos (nl)
Esperanto: sensignifa
Estonian: mõttetu
Finnish: merkityksetön (fi)
French: dénué de sens, dépourvu de sens
Galician: sen sentido
German: sinnlos (de), bedeutungslos (de)
Greek: χωρίς σημασία (chorís simasía)
Hindi: अर्थहीन (hi) (arthhīn)
Irish: gan chiall
Italian: senza senso, privo di significato, insignificante (it), senza capo né coda
Japanese: 無意味な (ja) (muimi na), つまらない (ja) (tsumaranai), 取るに足らない (toru ni taranai)
Latvian: bezjēdzīgs
Lithuanian: nereikšmingas, bereikšmis
Maori: hakihakiā
Norwegian:
Bokmål: meningsløs, meiningsløs, meningslaus, meiningslaus
Nynorsk: meiningslaus
Ottoman Turkish: بی معنی‎ (bîma’nâ)
Polish: bez znaczenia, bezsensowny (pl)
Portuguese: insignificante (pt), sem sentido
Russian: бессмы́сленный (ru) (bessmýslennyj)
Scots: meaninless
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бѐсмислен
Roman: bèsmislen (sh)
Spanish: sin sentido, insensato (es) m
Swedish: betydelselös (sv)
Telugu: అర్థంలేని (arthaṁlēni)
Thai: ไม่มีความหมาย (mai-mii-kwaam-mǎai), ไร้ความหมาย (rái-kwaam-mǎai)
Turkish: anlamsız (tr), boş (tr), manasız (tr), saçma (tr)
Ukrainian: безглуздий (uk) (bezhluzdyj)
Vietnamese: vô nghĩa (vi)
Welsh: diystyr (cy)

insignificant

Bulgarian: незначителен (bg) (neznačitelen)
Esperanto: ventaĵa
Finnish: mitätön (fi), merkityksetön (fi)
Latin: vānus
Ottoman Turkish: یاوان‎ (yavan)