meaningless
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Lacking meaning.
adj
Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
Example Sentences
- "The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English."
- "As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er."
- "All our efforts were ultimately meaningless."
- "Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless."
Etymology
Etymology tree English meaning Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English meaningless From meaning + -less.
Inflected Forms
more meaningless (comparative)
most meaningless (superlative)