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Meaningless

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Having no meaning or significance.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Lacking meaning

adj. insignificant.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. having no meaning; of no value. Opposite of meaningful.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Having no meaning; destitute of sense or significance.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having no meaning or direction or purpose

Word Usage

"As Greenwald points out, the use of the 'anti-Semitism' charge against ordinary every day non-bigotted people who just don't agree with some policy of Israel or of the American Enterprise Institute risks making the term meaningless and cheapening it, which can hardly be good for the Jews."

Equivalent

vacuous hollow nonsense empty nonsensical

Antonym

expressive significant meaningful

Form

meaninglessness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

empty unmeaning senseless insignificant unimportant

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

trivial useless pointless incoherent unnecessary