unmeaningful

[ uhn-mee-ning-fuhl ]

adjective

1. not meaningful; without significance.

Other Words From

• un·meaning·ful·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unmeaningful¹

un- ¹ + meaningful

Example Sentences

Sometimes its most unmeaningful moments are also its most eloquent.

From The New Yorker

Posing meaningful questions to others, or even unmeaningful ones, she correctly observes, is a skill that “many people never learn.”

From New York Times

The Test Kitchen, it turns out, is not an altogether unmeaningful step on my new career path. 

From Los Angeles Times

It is not not unmeaningful. "@jbarro: It is not unmeaningful that the WH rejects the 14A option but avoids taking a position on the coin."

From Time

But the finding was challenged in a 2007 study that found differences in stock market returns under Democrats and under Republicans to be unmeaningful.

From Washington Post