adj
Meaning 1
Lacking meaning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nonsensical, senseless
Antonyms: meaningful, sensical
Standard Lemma guide
meaningless
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈmiːnɪŋləs/
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adj
Meaning 2
Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: negligible, trivial, unmeaningful, hollow
Antonyms: meaningful, significant
adjective
Meaning 3
having no meaning or direction or purpose
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a meaningless endeavor
- a meaningless life
- a verbose but meaningless explanation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nonmeaningful
Antonyms: meaningful
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English meaning Proto-Indo-European *lewh1- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English meaningless From meaning + -less.
Across languages
Translations
67 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: անիմաստ (animast) — lacking meaning
- Azerbaijani: mənasız — lacking meaning
- Bulgarian: безсмислен (bezsmislen) — lacking meaning
- Bulgarian: безцелен (bezcelen) — lacking meaning
- Catalan: sense sentit — lacking meaning
- Czech: bezvýznamný — lacking meaning
- Danish: betydningsløs — lacking meaning
- Dutch: zinloos — lacking meaning
- Dutch: betekenisloos — lacking meaning
- Esperanto: sensignifa — lacking meaning
- Estonian: mõttetu — lacking meaning
- Finnish: merkityksetön — lacking meaning
- French: dénué de sens — lacking meaning
- French: dépourvu de sens — lacking meaning
- Galician: sen sentido — lacking meaning
- German: sinnlos — lacking meaning
- German: bedeutungslos — lacking meaning
- Greek: χωρίς σημασία (chorís simasía) — lacking meaning
- Hindi: अर्थहीन (arthhīn) — lacking meaning
- Hindi: निरर्थक (nirarthak) — lacking meaning
- Irish: gan chiall — lacking meaning
- Italian: senza senso — lacking meaning
- Italian: privo di significato — lacking meaning
- Italian: insignificante — lacking meaning
- Italian: senza capo né coda — lacking meaning
- Japanese: 無意味な (muimi na) — lacking meaning
- Japanese: つまらない (tsumaranai) — lacking meaning
- Japanese: 取るに足らない (toru ni taranai) — lacking meaning
- Latvian: bezjēdzīgs — lacking meaning
- Lithuanian: nereikšmingas — lacking meaning
- Lithuanian: bereikšmis — lacking meaning
- Māori: hakihakiā — lacking meaning
- Norwegian Bokmål: meningsløs — lacking meaning
- Norwegian Bokmål: meiningsløs — lacking meaning
- Norwegian Bokmål: meningslaus — lacking meaning
- Norwegian Bokmål: meiningslaus — lacking meaning
- Norwegian Nynorsk: meiningslaus — lacking meaning
- Polish: bez znaczenia — lacking meaning
- Polish: bezsensowny — lacking meaning
- Portuguese: insignificante — lacking meaning
- Portuguese: sem sentido — lacking meaning
- Russian: бессмы́сленный (bessmýslennyj) — lacking meaning
- Scots: meaninless — lacking meaning
- Serbo-Croatian: бѐсмислен — lacking meaning
- Serbo-Croatian: bèsmislen — lacking meaning
- Spanish: sin sentido — lacking meaning
- Spanish: insensato — lacking meaning
- Swedish: betydelselös — lacking meaning
- Telugu: అర్థంలేని (arthaṁlēni) — lacking meaning
- Thai: ไม่มีความหมาย (mai-mii-kwaam-mǎai) — lacking meaning
- Thai: ไร้ความหมาย (rái-kwaam-mǎai) — lacking meaning
- Turkish: anlamsız — lacking meaning
- Turkish: boş — lacking meaning
- Turkish: manasız — lacking meaning
- Turkish: saçma — lacking meaning
- Ottoman Turkish: بی معنی (bîma’nâ) — lacking meaning
- Ukrainian: безглуздий (bezhluzdyj) — lacking meaning
- Vietnamese: vô nghĩa — lacking meaning
- Welsh: diystyr — lacking meaning
- Bulgarian: незначителен (neznačitelen) — insignificant
- Esperanto: ventaĵa — insignificant
- Finnish: mitätön — insignificant
- Finnish: merkityksetön — insignificant
- Hindi: तुच्छ (tucch) — insignificant
- Hindi: नगण्य (nagaṇya) — insignificant
- Latin: vānus — insignificant
- Ottoman Turkish: یاوان (yavan) — insignificant