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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation" [syn: meaningless, nonmeaningful] [ant: meaningful]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1797 1. having no meaning; especially lacking any significance 2. having no assigned function in a language system • meaninglessly adverb • meaninglessness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. having no meaning or significance. Derivatives: meaninglessly adv. meaninglessness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Meaning Mean"ing, n. 1. That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent. If there be any good meaning towards you. --Shak. 2. That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint. 3. Sense; power of thinking. [R.] -- Mean"ing*less, a. -- Mean"ing*ly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If something that someone says or writes is meaningless, it has no meaning, or appears to have no meaning. She is fascinated by algebra while he considers it meaningless nonsense. ADJ 2. Something that is meaningless in a particular situation is not important or relevant. Fines are meaningless to guys earning millions. ADJ 3. If something that you do is meaningless, it has no purpose and is not at all worthwhile. They seek strong sensations to dull their sense of a meaningless existence. = futile ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

absurd, aimless, amorphous, asinine, blank, bootless, capricious, casual, designless, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disinclined to communicate, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, empty, erratic, fatuous, feckless, fitful, foolish, formless, frivolous, fustian, garbled, good-for-nothing, gratuitous, haphazard, hit-or-miss, hollow, immethodical, importless, impotent, inane, inchoate, incoherent, inconsequential, indiscriminate, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, insignificant, insubstantial, irregular, irrelevant, misshapen, no go, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonsensical, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, nugatory, null, of no use, orderless, paltry, phatic, planless, pointless, preposterous, promiscuous, puny, purportless, purposeless, random, ridiculous, scrambled, secretive, senseless, shapeless, silly, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, superfluous, systemless, trifling, trivial, unarranged, unavailing, unclassified, uncommunicative, unconversable, undirected, ungraded, unimportant, unjoined, unmeaning, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unpurposed, unsignificant, unsociable, unsorted, unsubstantial, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, useless, vacant, vacuous, vague, vain, valueless, wandering, worthless