unmeaning

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
18
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈmiːnɪŋ/

Definition of unmeaning

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (dated)Having no meaning or significance.
    “'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.”
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adj

  1. (dated)Having no meaning or significance.
    “'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.”

noun

  1. (uncountable)Absence of meaning; meaninglessness.

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Etymology

From un- + meaning.

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