meaningless

meaning +‎ -less

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meaningless (comparative more meaningless, superlative most meaningless)

1. Lacking meaning.

   The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.

2. Insignificant; not worthy of importance.

   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.

• (lacking meaning): nonsensical
• (not worthy of importance): negligible, trivial

• (antonym(s) of “lacking meaning”): meaningful
• (antonym(s) of “not worthy of importance”): significant

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