Usually means: Lacking purpose, significance, or value.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word meaningless:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. meaningless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. meaningless: Merriam-Webster
  3. meaningless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. meaningless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. meaningless: Collins English Dictionary
  6. meaningless: Vocabulary.com
  7. Meaningless, meaningless: Wordnik
  8. meaningless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. meaningless: Wiktionary
  10. meaningless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. meaningless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. meaningless: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. meaningless: Dictionary.com
  14. meaningless: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Meaningless (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. meaningless: Rhymezone
  17. meaningless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. meaningless: FreeDictionary.org
  19. meaningless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. meaningless: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meaningless: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meaningless: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Lacking meaning.
▸ adjective:  Insignificant; not worthy of importance.

Similar:
senseless, vacuous, pointless, unmeaning, mindless, purposeless, insignificant, empty, nonsensical, hollow, more...

Opposite:
meaningful, significant, purposeful, consequential, valuable

Types:
vacuous, banal, trite, stale, cliche, hackneyed, more...

Phrases:
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World, meaningless words, stuck on meaningless details, meaningful yet meaningless, meaningless statement, more...

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Similar:
senseless, vacuous, pointless, unmeaning, mindless, purposeless, insignificant, empty, nonsensical, hollow, more...

Opposite:
meaningful, significant, purposeful, consequential, valuable

Types:
vacuous, banal, trite, stale, cliche, hackneyed, more...

Phrases:
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World, meaningless words, stuck on meaningless details, meaningful yet meaningless, meaningless statement, meaningless talk, make meaningless, more...

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     gray,     off-white,     mauve, more...



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