Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unmeaning

/ʌnˈmiːnɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables: un-mean-ing
IPA: /ʌnˈmiːnɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having no meaning or significance.

Dated

noun

Absence of meaning; meaninglessness.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"'Tis a poor Ideot Boy, / Who sits in the Sun, and twirls a Bough about, / His weak eyes seeth'd in most unmeaning tears."
"The danger is plainly in the other direction,—to regard all truth as scientific, to reverence statistics, to attempt to gauge the soul, to measure the affections, and thus to make all true religion impossible, by limiting our faith by our knowledge, and by dismissing those terrible problems of destiny, with which the select est finds of all generations have wrestled, as unmeaning riddles, because we cannot solve them by the aid of the differential calculus."

Etymology

From un- + meaning.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Inflected Forms

more unmeaning (comparative) most unmeaning (superlative)

Derived Forms

unmeaningful unmeaningfully unmeaningly unmeaningness

Synonyms

insignificant meaningless

Questions

How do you pronounce unmeaning?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʌnˈmiːnɪŋ/.
What does unmeaning mean?: Having no meaning or significance.
Where does unmeaning come from?: From un- + meaning.

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