1 without any purpose or reason and therefore not worth doing or having:
a meaningless existence * meaningless violence on TV * We fill up our lives with meaningless tasks.
2 not considered important:
Fines are meaningless to a huge company like that.
3 not having a meaning that is easy to understand:
To me that painting is completely meaningless.
meaninglessly adverb meaninglessness noun [U]
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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