Inane vs Meaningless - What's the difference?
inane | meaningless |
Lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance).
purposeless; pointless
* I. Taylor
That which is void or empty.
* Locke
*1881 , :
Lacking meaning.
Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
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As adjectives the difference between inane and meaningless
is that inane is lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance) while meaningless is lacking meaning.As a noun inane
is that which is void or empty.inane
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This supremely gifted kid told me that in the early elementary grades, the songs sung in music class were so inane that he wanted to skip grades already! Eventually he did, so better late than never.
- Vague and inane instincts.
Synonyms
* (lacking sense) silly, fatuous, vapidDerived terms
* inanely * inanityNoun
(en noun)- The undistinguishable inane of infinite space.
- [...] whom we watch as we watch the clouds careering in the windy, bottomless inane , or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals.
Anagrams
* ----meaningless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless .}}