Mean"ing*less

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meaningless \meaningless\ adj.
   having no meaning; of no value; as, a meaningless endeavor; a
   meaningless life; a meaningless explanation. Opposite of
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Meaning \Mean"ing\, n.
   1. That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim;
      object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.
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            If there be any good meaning towards you. --Shak.
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   2. That which is signified, whether by act lanquage;
      signification; sense; import; as, the meaning of a hint.
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   3. Sense; power of thinking. [R.]
      [1913 Webster] -- {Mean"ing*less}, a. -- {Mean"ing*ly},
      adv.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "meaningless":
      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
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