meaning + -less
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Hyphenation: mean‧ing‧less
meaningless (comparative more meaningless, superlative most meaningless)
- Lacking meaning.
- Synonyms: nonsensical, senseless
- Antonyms: meaningful, sensical
The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.
- Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
- Synonyms: negligible, trivial, unmeaningful
- 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.
lacking meaning
- Armenian: անիմաստ (hy) (animast)
- Azerbaijani: mənasız (az)
- Bulgarian: безсмислен (bg) (bezsmislen), безцелен (bg) (bezcelen)
- Catalan: sense sentit
- Czech: bezvýznamný (cs)
- Danish: betydningsløs
- Dutch: zinloos (nl), betekenisloos (nl)
- Esperanto: sensignifa
- Estonian: mõttetu
- Finnish: merkityksetön (fi)
- French: dénué de sens, dépourvu de sens
- Galician: sen sentido
- German: sinnlos (de), bedeutungslos (de)
- Greek: χωρίς σημασία (chorís simasía)
- Hindi: अर्थहीन (hi) (arthhīn)
- Irish: gan chiall
- Italian: senza senso, privo di significato, insignificante (it), senza capo né coda
- Japanese: 無意味な (ja) (muimi na), つまらない (ja) (tsumaranai), 取るに足らない (ja) (toru ni taranai)
- Latvian: bezjēdzīgs
- Lithuanian: nereikšmingas, bereikšmis
- Maori: hakihakiā
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: meningsløs, meiningsløs, meningslaus, meiningslaus
- Nynorsk: meiningslaus
- Ottoman Turkish: بی معنی (bîma’nâ)
- Polish: bez znaczenia, bezsensowny (pl)
- Portuguese: insignificante (pt), sem sentido
- Russian: бессмы́сленный (ru) (bessmýslennyj)
- Scots: meaninless
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бѐсмислен
- Roman: bèsmislen (sh)
- Spanish: sin sentido, insensato (es) m
- Swedish: betydelselös (sv)
- Telugu: అర్థంలేని (arthaṁlēni)
- Thai: ไม่มีความหมาย (mai-mii-kwaam-mǎai), ไร้ความหมาย (rái-kwaam-mǎai)
- Turkish: anlamsız (tr), boş (tr), manasız (tr), saçma (tr)
- Ukrainian: безглуздий (uk) (bezhluzdyj)
- Vietnamese: vô nghĩa (vi)
- Welsh: diystyr (cy)
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