Meaningless Meaning
/ˈmiːnɪŋləs/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjLacking meaning.
adjInsignificant; not worthy of importance.
Sentence Examples
Technology is in itself meaningless unless it serves mankind.
The threat increases; a defence that doesn't evolve is meaningless.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ritual was performed without any purpose or reason; it was completely ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
All the wealth in the world is ____ if you don't have good health and friends to share it with.
Word Origin & History
From meaning + -less.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013:
"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."
— 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ritual was performed without any purpose or reason; it was completely ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
All the wealth in the world is ____ if you don't have good health and friends to share it with.