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 accusation felt absurd, like calling a chihuahua a wolf.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
30 Oct. 2025
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In the film, which Woo wrote and directed, Stevie (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) and her little brother Elliot (Elias Janssen) journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And that’s a stupid, dumb, mindless question.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
25 Oct. 2025
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Dessert Week is the stupidest week, at least conceptually.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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
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As inane and sterile as the marketing was, the actual event wasn’t awful.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In the picture, Diplo makes a silly face while Trudeau stares straight into the camera.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
3 Nov. 2025
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This fourth installment finds plenty to mine from Jigsaw and his diabolical traps — and yes, that silly tricycle-riding clown gets some screen time.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This guy might be single-handedly responsible for generations of people having an irrational fear of clowns.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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The study, published on the research platform arXiv, found that once the models were allowed to vary their bets and set their own targets, irrational behavior surged — and bankruptcy became a common outcome.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Demi would love it if Tim didn’t leave quite so many empty zero-sugar soda cans around the home.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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By virtue of their relative scarcity—there have been eight empty-the-tank outings since the century began—every Game 7 is an unqualified treat, but the Dodgers’ clinch was one for the ages.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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That’s what made the Gators’ decision to retain Napier especially foolish.—
Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
30 Oct. 2025
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This of course was foolish in light of the fact that trade deals are incredibly complicated and take a long time to finalize.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Meaningless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaningless. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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