Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking sense or substance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Empty; void; especially, void of sense or intelligence; senseless; silly.
- Synonyms Frivolous, puerile, trifling.
- noun That which is void or empty; void space; emptiness; vacuity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless.
- noun rare That which is void or empty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Lacking sense ormeaning (often implying, "to the point ofboredom orannoyance "). - noun That which is
void orempty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective devoid of intelligence
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Everyone seems to spend a lot of time in inane conversation.
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He inserts himself into the narrative and indulges in inane asides.
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* Cast a spell on weathercasters that engage in inane behavior resulting in hilarious, viral TV bloopers.
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I'm willing to submit to the vision - his use of color and inane is definitely memorable, and might bring about some good things
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Tory kids will be able to retire nice and young and waste their days in inane pursuits such as reading your drivel.
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Tory kids will be able to retire nice and young and waste their days in inane pursuits such as reading your drivel.
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How inane is it that marketers at Microsoft balk at entering the podcasting market because they think the name helps Apple.
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Instead, it starts off with in inane, one-dimensional, simplistic “McCarthy was right” and what came out of that.
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Instead, it starts off with in inane, one-dimensional, simplistic “McCarthy was right†and what came out of that.
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Drug test welfare recipients "inane" - what about making buying a Barbie doll illegal and banning from West Virginia.
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nuxiy commented on the word inane
"Generation was decreed and the being who was generated was willed as the "child of duty," namely, as one who must undertake and nourish the supernatural element of his stock and the liberation of the ancestor, and who must receive and pass on to future generations strength, life, and stability. Today, all this has become an inane fancy; men, instead of being in control of sex are controlled by it and wander about like drunkards without having the least cluse as to what takes place in the course of their embraces"
- Julius Evola in "The Revolt against the Modern World"
March 23, 2009
bilby commented on the word inane
I like the way the AHD definition goes straight to the share-house.
April 14, 2015