From meaning -less
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Hyphenation: mean‧ing‧less
meaningless (comparative more meaningless , superlative most meaningless )
Lacking meaning .
Synonyms: nonsensical senseless Antonyms: meaningful sensical The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.
Insignificant ; not worthy of importance .
Synonyms: negligible trivial unmeaningful Antonyms: meaningful significant All our efforts were ultimately meaningless .
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers? ”, in The Economist 408 , number 8845 :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 .
lacking meaning
Armenian: անիմաստ (hy) ( animast )
Azerbaijani: mənasız (az)
Bulgarian: безсмислен (bg) ( bezsmislen ) , безцелен (bg) ( bezcelen )
Catalan: sense sentit
Czech: bezvýznamný (cs)
Danish: betydningsløs
Dutch: zinloos (nl) , betekenisloos (nl)
Esperanto: sensignifa
Estonian: mõttetu
Finnish: merkityksetön (fi)
French: dénué de sens dépourvu de sens
Galician: sen sentido
German: sinnlos (de) , bedeutungslos (de)
Greek: χωρίς σημασία ( chorís simasía )
Hindi: अर्थहीन (hi) ( arthhīn ) , निरर्थक (hi) ( nirarthak )
Irish: gan chiall
Italian: senza senso privo di significato insignificante (it) , senza capo né coda
Japanese: 無意味な (ja) ( muimi na ) , つまらない (ja) ( tsumaranai ) , 取るに足らない (ja) ( toru ni taranai )
Latvian: bezjēdzīgs
Lithuanian: nereikšmingas bereikšmis
Maori: hakihakiā
Norwegian:
Bokmål: meningsløs meiningsløs meningslaus meiningslaus
Nynorsk: meiningslaus
Ottoman Turkish: بی معنی ( bîma’nâ )
Polish: bez znaczenia bezsensowny (pl)
Portuguese: insignificante (pt) , sem sentido
Russian: бессмы́сленный (ru) ( bessmýslennyj )
Scots: meaninless
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бѐсмислен
Roman: bèsmislen (sh)
Spanish: sin sentido insensato (es) m
Swedish: betydelselös (sv)
Telugu: అర్థంలేని ( arthaṁlēni )
Thai: ไม่มีความหมาย ( mai-mii-kwaam-mǎai ) , ไร้ความหมาย ( rái-kwaam-mǎai )
Turkish: anlamsız (tr) , boş (tr) , manasız (tr) , saçma (tr)
Ukrainian: безглуздий (uk) ( bezhluzdyj )
Vietnamese: vô nghĩa (vi)
Welsh: diystyr (cy)
