Meaningless vs Incomprehensible - What's the difference?
meaningless | incomprehensible | Synonyms |
Lacking meaning.
Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Impossible or very difficult to understand.
* Greg Bear, Heads , 1990
* Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth , 1938
Meaningless is a synonym of incomprehensible.
As adjectives the difference between meaningless and incomprehensible
is that meaningless is lacking meaning while incomprehensible is incomprehensible.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 .}}
Derived terms
* meaninglessnessSynonyms
* (not worthy of importance) negligible, trivialAntonyms
* (lacking meaning) meaningful * (not worthy of importance) significantincomprehensible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He shook his head. 'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible. Even the QL is befuddled by it and can't give me straight answers.'
- But this inference, which is supported by the opening of Book I, renders incomprehensible the note "and I have finished writing this," which is included within the dream.