Meaningless
['miːnɪŋlɪs] or ['minɪŋləs]
Definition
(adj.) having no meaning or direction or purpose; 'a meaningless endeavor'; 'a meaningless life'; 'a verbose but meaningless explanation' .
Typist: Nora--From WordNet
Examples
- What Brangwen thought himself to be, how meaningless it was, confronted with the reality of him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is difficult to believe nowadays that the order of nature indulged in any such meaningless comments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I fancy that the poor fellow murmured some incoherent delirious words, and that she twisted them into this meaningless message. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The ceremonies which follow later are but meaningless formalities. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- On and on it flowed, a current of meaningless sound, on which, startlingly enough, a familiar name now and then floated to the surface. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The scowl which occasionally showed itself on his square brow was not a meaningless accident. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was afraid that one day he would break down and be a purely meaningless babble lapping round a darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was Shortlands with its meaningless distinction, the meaningless crowd of the Criches. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If we have no concern or interest, the waving of the arms is as meaningless to us as the gyrations of the arms of a windmill. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Conceive mind as anything but one factor partaking along with others in the production of consequences, and it becomes meaningless. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But the ideal of annihilation becomes an irrelevant and meaningless phrase. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Nora