单词 | no-meaning |
释义 | no-meaningn. The absence or lack of meaning or purpose; nonsense; meaninglessness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [noun] insolidity1578 emptiness1579 insignificancy1651 no-meaning1672 insignificance1754 inexpression1796 inexpressiveness1815 vacuousness1816 unmeaningness1825 unmeaning1839 pointlessness1845 non-significance1846 meaninglessness1853 unsuggestiveness1858 unexpressiveness1885 nonsense1942 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal i. i. 2 'Tis a phrase they have got among them, to express their no-meaning by. 1709 R. Gould Wks. I. 77 And he that had no Meaning to do wrong, Can't suffer, sure, for his No-meaning long. 1735 A. Pope Of Char. of Women 10 True No-meaning puzzles more than Wit. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 74 Cat'racts of declamation thunder here; There forests of no meaning spread the page. 1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 167 A little ugly, incongruous brick erection..the nature and no-meaning of which we cannot tell. a1854 C. B. Southey Poet. Wks. (1867) ii. 56 The friend..with a calm smile Of sweet no-meaning, gently answers—‘Yes, Indeed it's very pretty.’ 1882 M. Oliphant Lit. Hist. Eng. III. 107 The quaint and delightful no-meaning of some of Shakspeare's snatches of spirit-song. 1994 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 54 497 Renga's absolute, the totally imagistic verse, commands respect for its integrity, its openness to no-meaning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1672 |
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