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单词 unsignifying
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unsignifyingadj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈsignifying.
(un- prefix1 4.)
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [adjective]
emptya1225
sleevelessc1450
dumb1531
insensible1538
senseless1579
weetless1579
unsignificant1603
surd1605
matterless1612
unmeaning1632
non-significative1633
brute1642
shelly1648
insignificant1651
insignificative1660
unsignificative1664
unsignifying1665
unsensed1667
meaningless1728
bilka1734
meanless1734
inexpressive1744
unideal1751
unexpressive1755
idealess1793
unsuggestive1797
tenorless1821
themeless1840
nonsensible1851
inarticulate1855
purportless1865
expressionless1871
vacuous1872
contentless1886
unmeaningful1897
1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity Ep. Ded. They carry the war out of the bounds of Science..and transfer it to a kind of Spatium Imaginarium of Fancy and unsignifying sounds.
a1680 Glanvill in Disc., etc. (1681) 407 Such a Faith as this is that which St. James writes so earnestly against, as dead, and unsignifying (of it self alone) to the purpose of Justification.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 66 Muttering over them some unsignifying Significations.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 86/1 A tune is named generally after some place, as ‘York’,..or by some other unsignifying word.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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