meaningless

From meaning +‎ -less.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːnɪŋləs/
• Hyphenation: mean‧ing‧less

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meaningless (comparative more meaningless, superlative most meaningless)

1. Lacking meaning.

   Synonyms: nonsensical, senseless

   Antonyms: meaningful, sensical

   The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.

   • 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 January 2013:

     As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.

2. Insignificant; not worthy of importance.

   Synonyms: negligible, trivial, unmeaningful, hollow

   Antonyms: meaningful, significant

   All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.

   • 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.

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