meaningless

Definition

Lacking meaning.

Etymology

From meaning + -less.

Example Sentences

• "The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English."
• "As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er."
• "All our efforts were ultimately meaningless."