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unmeaning

[ uhn-mee-ning ]

adjective

  1. not meaning mean meaning anything; devoid of intelligence, sense, or significance, as words or actions; pointless; empty.
  2. expressionless, vacant, or unintelligent, as the face; insipid.


unmeaning

/ ÊŒ²Ôˈ³¾¾±Ë²Ôɪŋ /

adjective

  1. having no meaning
  2. showing no intelligence; vacant

    an unmeaning face

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Derived Forms

  • ³Ü²Ôˈ³¾±ð²¹²Ô¾±²Ô²µ±ô²â, adverb
  • ³Ü²Ôˈ³¾±ð²¹²Ô¾±²Ô²µ²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³Ü²Ô·³¾±ð²¹²Ôi²Ô²µÂ·±ô²â adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of unmeaning1

First recorded in 1695–1705; un- 1 + meaning
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Example Sentences

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“Substance has yielded to form, the religion of the heart to the observance of unmeaning forms and ceremonies.â€

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The old woman, wrinkled, dirty, clothed in an ill-sewn sack of sealskin, pointed at the little silken dress and at herself, and smiled: a sweet, unmeaning smile, like a baby’s.

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Immigrant voters were "corrupting the ballot box - that great palladium of our liberty - into an unmeaning mockery", he fumed.

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“It aims at the palatial and attains the sham-palatial,†the anonymous reviewer wrote, describing the projecting cornice as “huge, umbrageous, unmeaning, irrelevant†and characteristic “of the cheapest and vulgarest kind of tenement houses.â€

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They dropped like the stones I’d throw in Catclaw Creek or fluttered spastically and panickedly up whereupon I took more tenacious aim— much more difficult now because they moved —not me, frozen as if in a camera’s flash— troubling the tyranny of the ordinary as if a wave of meaning or unmeaning went rippling like heat through the yard.

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