2. Not indicating intelligence or sense; senseless;
expressionless; as, an unmeaning face.
[1913 Webster]
There pride sits blazoned on the unmeaning brow. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster] -- {Un*mean"ing*ly}, adv. -- {Un*mean"ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Unmeaningness — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Absence of meaning. < N PARAG:Unmeaningness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unmeaningness unmeaningness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 scrabble scrabble GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 empty sound empty sound dead letter vox et praeterea nihil => … English dictionary for students
unmeaningness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of meaning or sense Nouns 1. unmeaningness, meaninglessness, senselessness, etc.; absurdity, inanity; ambiguity (see unintelligibility); oxymoron. 2. nonsense, verbiage, mere words, empty sound, dead… … English dictionary for students
unmeaningness — noun The quality of being unmeaning; insignificance. Syn: meaninglessness, unmeaningfulness … Wiktionary
unmeaningness — un·mean·ing·ness … English syllables
unmeaningness — noun see unmeaning … Useful english dictionary
dead letter — Synonyms and related words: Pastoral Epistle, aerogram, aimlessness, air letter, airgraph, billet doux, bull, chain letter, dimissorial, dimissory letter, drop letter, emptiness, empty sound, encyclical, fan letter, form letter, futility, inanity … Moby Thesaurus
emptiness — Synonyms and related words: absence, absence of mind, absurdity, acreage, aimlessness, angst, anguish, anxiety, appetite, area, aridity, bareness, barrenness, big deal, blankness, bleakness, bloodlessness, bootlessness, boredom, breadth, canine… … Moby Thesaurus
futility — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, aimlessness, bankruptcy, big deal, blank future, bleak outlook, bootlessness, counterproductiveness, counterproductivity, dead letter, defeat, emptiness, empty sound, failure, fatuity, fecklessness,… … Moby Thesaurus
inanity — Synonyms and related words: absence of mind, absurdity, agnosticism, aimlessness, aridity, asininity, barrenness, battiness, big deal, blank, blank mind, blankmindedness, blankness, bloodlessness, bootlessness, brainlessness, buffoonery,… … Moby Thesaurus
insignificance — Synonyms and related words: aimlessness, daintiness, dead letter, delicacy, diminutiveness, emptiness, empty sound, exiguity, exiguousness, fewness, futility, immateriality, inanity, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness,… … Moby Thesaurus
