单词	meaningless
释义	meaninglessmean‧ing‧less /ˈmiːnɪŋləs/ ●○○ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a meaningless campaign pledge a meaningless ritual I wish politicians would tell us the truth, instead of repeating their meaningless prepared answers. If he can't read it, then it will be meaningless to him. It is meaningless to ask what is "real" or "imaginary" in a story. So many of us spend our lives doing meaningless work in huge faceless companies. The statement issued by the authorities was meaningless. They had a brief, meaningless relationship a few years ago. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But then, so do the 49ers as they slog their way through three more utterly meaningless games. In fact the limitations which Baldwin accepted on this occasion were almost meaningless. In the great outdoors, the merit of any feats become meaningless. Such a move could render the elections meaningless. Such claims might be contentious, but it would be odd to see them as meaningless. The practical consequences of time limits which are not of the essence of the contract are such that they are virtually meaningless. The words I had written - and had almost, in the interval, forgotten - mocked me and were meaningless. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorhaving no meaning► meaningless something that is meaningless has no meaning, and is therefore useless, wrong, or stupid: · I wish politicians would tell us the truth, instead of repeating their meaningless prepared answers.· The statement issued by the authorities was meaningless.· It is meaningless to ask what is "real" or "imaginary" in a story. ► nonsense speech or writing that has no meaning: · He described her comments as confused nonsense.talk nonsense: · I don't intend to waste any more time listening to you talk nonsense. ► gobbledygook informal complicated language, especially in an official document, that seems to have no meaning: · I can't understand all this legal gobbledygook. without any purpose► pointless something that is pointless has no purpose and makes you angry or sad: · a film full of pointless violence· Never give your students pointless exercises to do -- always provide interesting, meaningful tasks.be pointless to do something: · It is pointless to argue about who is more to blame. ► aimless not having any purpose or plan and therefore boring or sad: · The novel seems aimless, and the characters are stereotypes.· She changed from an aimless, pregnant teenager into a purposeful young woman. ► senseless a crime or something bad that is senseless seems to have no meaning or purpose and you cannot understand why someone would do it: · It was a senseless and cruel murder.· Smashing up trains is such a senseless form of vandalism.· The suicide was described as a senseless waste of a young woman's life. ► meaningless without any meaning or purpose and therefore boring, sad, or having no effect: · a meaningless campaign pledge· So many of us spend our lives doing meaningless work in huge faceless companies.· Several companies dismissed the ruling as "meaningless," saying it would have no effect on their operations. ► lack direction also lack of direction if something lacks direction or has a lack of direction , it does not have a clear purpose and is not well organized: · It could have been a good film, but I felt it lacked direction.· He quit over the company's lack of direction. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► absolutely/utterly/completely meaningless  a statistic that is absolutely meaningless ► virtually/fairly/largely meaningless COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► almost · In fact the limitations which Baldwin accepted on this occasion were almost meaningless.· Each side generates a discourse that is powerless and almost meaningless in the linguistic world of the other.· But many more I found so general in their sentiments as to be, for me, almost meaningless. ► as · Treating to as meaningless in some or all of its uses with the infinitive raises several serious problems however.· Such claims might be contentious, but it would be odd to see them as meaningless.· Mysticism, in particular, is as meaningless to me as music must be to the tone deaf. ► fairly · Until the Revolution the politics of the capital had been fairly meaningless for Sabtenga.· All this technology is fairly meaningless unless we can express its capabilities in comparison with the traditional methods.· It was also handed a symbolic but fairly meaningless victory in having two orders varied. ► largely · We were divided into watches but this was largely meaningless. ► virtually · The practical consequences of time limits which are not of the essence of the contract are such that they are virtually meaningless.· Indeed such a question is virtually meaningless.· To say that they are right or wrong is virtually meaningless. Word family WORD FAMILYadjectivemeaningfulmeaninglessnounmeaningverbmeanadverbmeaningfully 1having no purpose or importance and therefore not worth doing or having:  He said a few meaningless words to his hostess and looked around the room. a repetitive and meaningless taskabsolutely/utterly/completely meaningless a statistic that is absolutely meaninglessvirtually/fairly/largely meaningless2not having a meaning that you can understand or explain:  Chinese characters are just meaningless symbols to me.—meaninglessness noun [uncountable]
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