词汇 | meaningless |
释义 | meaningless adjective uk /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/ us /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/ meaninglessadjective (NO MEANING)having no meaning: 无意义的 a meaningless phrase无意义的短语 Meaning & significance acceptation add add up to something backspin be a badge of somethingidiom connotation drive i.e. interpretable locution locutionary mean meaningfully meaningfulness purport sense significant signify subtext what's with something?idiom meaninglessadjective (NOT IMPORTANT)having no importance or value: 没有重要性的,没有价值的 a meaningless gesture毫无重要性的手势 useless uselessWe have cleared out carloads of useless junk. no useMoney is no use if it's just sitting there. serve no purposeSuch warnings serve no purpose other than to scare the public. pointlessShe sees cleaning as a pointless exercise since everything is going to get dirty again. worthlessThe majority of objects in the exhibition are worthless junk. Of little or less importance be in/under someone's shadowidiom be neither here nor thereidiom big deal biggie derisory marginal meaninglessly meaninglessness mere merely picture piddling piddly piffling play second fiddleidiom unserious unseriousness venial vestigial vestigially You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Useless and futile Related wordsmeaninglessly meaninglessness meaningless | American Dictionarymeaningless adjective us/ˈmi·nɪŋ·lɪs/ meaninglessadjective (WITHOUT EXPRESSING)without representing or expressing anything; without referring to someone or something: The leaflet was full of meaningless information. meaninglessadjective (WITHOUT IMPORTANCE)without purpose; useless: a meaningless gesture Examples of meaninglessmeaningless I hated its commonplace chords, its oily wellsoundingness, its meaningless tonelines. Respondents in the experiment frequently commented on whether the text they read was meaningful or meaningless. In reality, this became a meaningless distinction when confronted with the scale of the problem. However, when software systems and components live and interact in an open world, the concept of flow of control becomes meaningless. Anything discounted at a rate of 3-6 per cent becomes meaningless after 50-100 years. The object is to make a work which demystifies reality, such that a purely aesthetic appreciation becomes meaningless. The carnival erased social conventions by rendering them meaningless, and this 'decontextualization' relieved individuals from responsibility for their actions. Thus, the humorist concludes, it is meaningless to attempt explanations. Cruel scams were played out on desperate families, with meaningless but costly information peddled to them on the whereabouts of the missing. Disruption of these connections leads to despair, perception of life as meaningless, and the self as powerless. Failing to see that what is sublime cannot be said, he attempts to capture it in meaningless propositions. Resurrection would be meaningless there, serving only to complicate the process of releasement. Moreover, some meaningless differences in the representation as term/environment pairs are quotiented out in the net representation, which makes the approach even simpler. They have the limitation that one must write down explicit functional forms to test; failure to include the true form may lead to meaningless results. Even though most of the countries referred to here incorporate accountability into their security governance, such accountability is meaningless. See all examples of meaningless These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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