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单词 meaningless
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Definition of meaningless in English:

meaningless

adjective ˈmiːnɪŋləsˈminɪŋləs
  • 1Having no meaning or significance.

    the paragraph was a jumble of meaningless words
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She paused as she glimpsed the shock in my expression that she was speaking more than a handful of meaningless words.
    • She focused on her laptop, tapping keys but she was typing meaningless words.
    • Despite Sheehan's passion for words, he understands that words by themselves are meaningless.
    • Tired faces turned, waiting for the thread of babble and meaningless words they would only pretend to hear.
    • They asked if I was going to the office, and I replied with some meaningless nonsense.
    • He would see right through my choice of large meaningless words, but I didn't care.
    • Words became meaningless, and a fountain of primal silence washed over the crowd of young people.
    • Lisa, the secretary, offered her deepest sympathies but the words were meaningless.
    • During his latest round of meaningless words their faces had drifted closer.
    • She shook her head vigorously, trying to get his meaningless words out of her head and ears, and shoved him away.
    • Avoid useless and meaningless words, and certain phrases that will place you in the penalty box.
    • From his own mouth the words are meaningless, and so he pulls up a chair.
    • But as you get older you rely on words, and as you get wiser those words become longer and more meaningless.
    • He had stopped talking when he realized his words were turning into meaningless mumbling.
    • Some rather meaningless words were exchanged, but they soon ran out of things to say.
    • Don't say too much; avoid meaningless jargon; don't fiddle with your hair on camera.
    • After alteration, formerly understandable Swedish words become meaningless.
    • He was murmuring sweet meaningless words in my ears.
    • Then they were shown a series of words either neutral, meaningless or related to aggression.
    • Any other construction of the words or order in section 3 would render them meaningless.
    Synonyms
    unintelligible, incomprehensible, incoherent, illogical, senseless, unmeaning, foolish, silly, absurd, fatuous, ridiculous, nonsensical, idle
    1. 1.1 Having no purpose or reason.
      they'd rather live by begging than get a meaningless job
      rules are meaningless to a child if they do not have a rationale
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Right and wrong are meaningless to him, all that matter are sensation and experience.
      • Somehow the weekly ceremony had seemed hollow and meaningless to her.
      • No thinking adult wastes time in idle pursuits that are difficult and meaningless.
      • It was just a useless coach trip to follow a meaningless tradition.
      • Still, trying to fulfil them always seemed so pointless and meaningless.
      • Corina often found her job meaningless without a Master in the manor, but her loyalty to the Warrick descendant never wavered.
      • Miel related the meaningless events of her day in the city to Lucas and waited patiently for him to tell her about the experiment.
      • They would talk, but about pointless, and meaningless things, but only if they could spare you the time of day.
      • Now we are seeing all that hard work buried under meaningless work.
      • People were specks far below, crawling about their meaningless, methodical lives like insects.
      • Why should I want to get my voice back when life itself was already meaningless to me?
      • Of course we also feared that such thoughts were nonsense and Doug's death was a meaningless accident.
      • It's also meaningless to go shopping, if you judge your life this way.
      • It was as if they had received notice that their lives had been meaningless.
      • It is not meaningless to speak of a French decline since the mid-1970s.
      • As Evan says the price increase is meaningless to all, but those wishing to move.
      • While we wait with bated breath, the meaningless one day jamboree rambles on.
      • Your life was meaningless, nothing significant would ever happen to you.
      • So, it's meaningless to say that the rest of the album doesn't quite measure up.
      • It was just a husk, an empty shell, worth nothing, containing nothing, meaningless.
      Synonyms
      futile, pointless, aimless, empty, hollow, vain, purposeless, motiveless, valueless, useless, of no use, worthless, trivial, trifling, vacuous, unimportant, insignificant, inconsequential, insubstantial, nugatory, fruitless, profitless, barren, unproductive, unprofitable

Derivatives

  • meaninglessly

  • adverb
    • Time passed meaninglessly in that little room, measured only in the breaths she took in and out, in the soft clicking of her needles.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What the model teaches us is how to write meaninglessly.
      • If you do not, then more of your pathetic soldiers will die meaninglessly against a force that they can never beat.
      • Mutti's words echoed meaninglessly in my head.
      • He allows plot points and characters to meander around meaninglessly, while avoiding obvious elements like purpose and plausibility.
  • meaninglessness

  • noun ˈmiːnɪŋləsnəsˈminɪŋɡləsnəs
    • He shows us the meaninglessness of contemporary life.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It had begun as an experiment to prove the meaninglessness of best-seller lists, or indeed any standard that equates quantity with quality.
      • The lead character, Chip, struggles desperately to find a way to circumvent the terrible boredom and meaninglessness of existence.
      • The content of the preface was repeated to the point of meaninglessness.
      • And if meaninglessness is the point, then they've done their job quite effectively.
 
 

Definition of meaningless in US English:

meaningless

adjectiveˈminɪŋləsˈmēniNGləs
  • 1Having no meaning or significance.

    the paragraph was a jumble of meaningless words
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lisa, the secretary, offered her deepest sympathies but the words were meaningless.
    • Tired faces turned, waiting for the thread of babble and meaningless words they would only pretend to hear.
    • During his latest round of meaningless words their faces had drifted closer.
    • She shook her head vigorously, trying to get his meaningless words out of her head and ears, and shoved him away.
    • Words became meaningless, and a fountain of primal silence washed over the crowd of young people.
    • From his own mouth the words are meaningless, and so he pulls up a chair.
    • But as you get older you rely on words, and as you get wiser those words become longer and more meaningless.
    • They asked if I was going to the office, and I replied with some meaningless nonsense.
    • Don't say too much; avoid meaningless jargon; don't fiddle with your hair on camera.
    • Any other construction of the words or order in section 3 would render them meaningless.
    • Some rather meaningless words were exchanged, but they soon ran out of things to say.
    • Despite Sheehan's passion for words, he understands that words by themselves are meaningless.
    • She paused as she glimpsed the shock in my expression that she was speaking more than a handful of meaningless words.
    • He had stopped talking when he realized his words were turning into meaningless mumbling.
    • She focused on her laptop, tapping keys but she was typing meaningless words.
    • After alteration, formerly understandable Swedish words become meaningless.
    • He was murmuring sweet meaningless words in my ears.
    • He would see right through my choice of large meaningless words, but I didn't care.
    • Avoid useless and meaningless words, and certain phrases that will place you in the penalty box.
    • Then they were shown a series of words either neutral, meaningless or related to aggression.
    Synonyms
    unintelligible, incomprehensible, incoherent, illogical, senseless, unmeaning, foolish, silly, absurd, fatuous, ridiculous, nonsensical, idle
    1. 1.1 Having no purpose or reason.
      rules are meaningless to a child if they do not have a rationale
      the Great War was an outstanding example of meaningless conflict
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was just a useless coach trip to follow a meaningless tradition.
      • Now we are seeing all that hard work buried under meaningless work.
      • Of course we also feared that such thoughts were nonsense and Doug's death was a meaningless accident.
      • So, it's meaningless to say that the rest of the album doesn't quite measure up.
      • Miel related the meaningless events of her day in the city to Lucas and waited patiently for him to tell her about the experiment.
      • It was as if they had received notice that their lives had been meaningless.
      • Corina often found her job meaningless without a Master in the manor, but her loyalty to the Warrick descendant never wavered.
      • Still, trying to fulfil them always seemed so pointless and meaningless.
      • While we wait with bated breath, the meaningless one day jamboree rambles on.
      • Your life was meaningless, nothing significant would ever happen to you.
      • Somehow the weekly ceremony had seemed hollow and meaningless to her.
      • They would talk, but about pointless, and meaningless things, but only if they could spare you the time of day.
      • As Evan says the price increase is meaningless to all, but those wishing to move.
      • It was just a husk, an empty shell, worth nothing, containing nothing, meaningless.
      • No thinking adult wastes time in idle pursuits that are difficult and meaningless.
      • Right and wrong are meaningless to him, all that matter are sensation and experience.
      • Why should I want to get my voice back when life itself was already meaningless to me?
      • It is not meaningless to speak of a French decline since the mid-1970s.
      • People were specks far below, crawling about their meaningless, methodical lives like insects.
      • It's also meaningless to go shopping, if you judge your life this way.
      Synonyms
      futile, pointless, aimless, empty, hollow, vain, purposeless, motiveless, valueless, useless, of no use, worthless, trivial, trifling, vacuous, unimportant, insignificant, inconsequential, insubstantial, nugatory, fruitless, profitless, barren, unproductive, unprofitable
 
 
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