as in pointless
having no meaning
this argument over seating arrangements is an utterly meaningless bit of nonsense
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Recent Examples of meaningless
It’s often used to label meaningless, overexposed or intentionally chaotic content.
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
If the cosmic ray bound turns out to be meaningless, r is allowed to be even lower.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
Last season, Mahomes and crew won six straight games in late November and December before losing a meaningless game in Week 18 to the Denver Broncos in which many of their regulars didn't play.
—Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Mainstream rap nowadays is suffocating from meaningless rivalries, subliminal shots for stans to decode and misinterpret, and redundant talk of who’s really in the streets and who’s snitching.
—Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
If the cosmic ray bound turns out to be meaningless, r is allowed to be even lower.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
Last season, Mahomes and crew won six straight games in late November and December before losing a meaningless game in Week 18 to the Denver Broncos in which many of their regulars didn't play.
—Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Mainstream rap nowadays is suffocating from meaningless rivalries, subliminal shots for stans to decode and misinterpret, and redundant talk of who’s really in the streets and who’s snitching.
—Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaningless
Adjective
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Trinkets are either very helpful or very pointless.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Republicans weren’t having it, but most pouncing would have been pointless.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The combination of absurd temperatures, damp humidity, and having my hair stick to my neck daily was driving me insane.—
Kayla Greaves,
Essence,
6 Nov. 2025
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Plus, who doesn’t love Nick Offerman sharing the screen with absurd facial hair?—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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What gave me the crazy idea to stand at the bar, listening to that woman being praised for her stupid f---ing commitment to New York City and her ugly f---ing buildings?—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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Her mechanism for luring victims involves a stick, someone’s hair, her blood, and another person stupid enough to let her through their front door.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Unlike Cesar Romero’s Joker from the child-friendly TV Batman, cheery and inane, Jack Nicholson’s version is fully monstrous—sneering and sadistic, his dead eyes obscene next to his rictus grin.—
The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
29 Oct. 2025
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But the writers, like Noah and Joanne, are ignoring that fundamental fork in the road in favor of inane high jinks from the couple and their increasingly irksome friends and family.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The brazen, silly grandeur of the piece was astounding.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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The Saturday Night Live alum's vast tattoo collection, at one point made up of around 200 pieces of body art, includes ink dedicated to his former girlfriends, as well as more silly, lighthearted designs.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Satire is brilliant for exposing the folly of humans, especially those in power and those working in bad faith—the hypocrites and the frauds—and can be particularly potent when set in irrational or dystopic times.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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But why are these fears irrational?—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Past Future Continuous shifts focus from the act of leaving to the homes and land left behind — places that grow emptier over time.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Nov. 2025
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The 2026 fest will improve upon this system by swapping out all tanks prior to guest arrival, so each system is fresh and empty at the start of the event.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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That was questionable, but not egregiously foolish, in our view, because of the limited amount of time left.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
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Another agent pointed to how contractions in post-strike, post-pandemic Hollywood have decimated the theater business, creating new opportunities that Netflix would be foolish to pass up.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Meaningless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaningless. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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