Synonyms for meaningless
ˈmi nɪŋ lɪsmean·ing·less

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1. meaninglessadjective

   Antonyms:
   significant, meaningful

2. meaninglessadjective

   The word gugugu is meaningless in English.

   Antonyms:
   significant, meaningful

3. meaninglessadjective

   All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.

   Antonyms:
   meaningful, significant

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1. meaningless, nonmeaningfuladjective

   having no meaning or direction or purpose

   "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"

   Synonyms:
   nonmeaningful

   Antonyms:
   purposeful, significant, meaning(a), pregnant, meaningful, substantive, meaty

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1. List of paraphrases for "meaningless":

   pointless, senseless, insignificant, nonsensical, irrelevant, futile, useless, unimportant, unnecessary, interest-free, worthless, inconsequential, empty

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1. Denis Cheryshev:

   We tried. I think the whole team gave 100 percent. But it didn't happen. I think that penalties are a lottery. We're going home, to score four goals is good, but if the team doesn't go forward, it's meaningless.

2. Zhou Lin:

   Defending that psychological support level is difficult, and meaningless, investors see no good reason to buy stocks now - the yuan is depreciating, the U.S. is raising rates, and the economy is deteriorating.

3. Lukas Erichsen:

   Indeed who would be prosecuted or fined should over 500 be killed in the next two years ? No doubt if over 500 were killed in a year then those responsible would claim they did not realize that the pod was so big until it was driven into the shallows and the dolphins killed, this new' quota' is meaningless for dolphins in the long run and has only hastily been announced as a thinly-veiled attempt to deceive both politicians and the press in the face of continued outrage over the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.

4. Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence:

   Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

5. Kim Seok-wu:

   I think I will feel hopeless if all companies go AI for hiring, the AI interview is too new, so job applicants don't know what to prepare for and any preparations seem meaningless since the AI will read our faces if we make something up.