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meaningless

adj
/ˈmiːnɪŋləs/

Etymology

From meaning + -less.

  1. inherited from mening
  2. formed as meaningless — “meaning + -less”

Definitions

  1. Lacking meaning.

    • The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.

  2. Insignificant

    Insignificant; not worthy of importance.

    • All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at meaningless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at meaningless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at meaningless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA