meaningless

English

meaningless (comparative more meaningless, superlative most meaningless)

Lacking meaning.
The word "gugugu" is meaningless in English.
Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
- 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
  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.
All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.

lacking meaning

Armenian: անիմաստ (hy) (animast)
Catalan: sense sentit
Czech: bezvýznamný (cs)
Dutch: zinloos (nl), betekenisloos (nl)
Esperanto: sensignifa
Estonian: mõttetu
Finnish: merkityksetön (fi)
French: dénué de sens, dépourvu de sens
Galician: sen sentido
German: sinnlos (de), bedeutungslos (de)
Greek: χωρίς σημασία f (chorís simasía)
Irish: gan chiall
Italian: senza senso, privo di significato, insignificante (it), senza capo né coda
Japanese: 無意味な (ja) (muimi na), つまらない (ja) (tsumaranai), 取るに足らない (toru ni taranai)
Latvian: bezjēdzīgs
Lithuanian: nereikšmingas m, nereikšminga f, bereikšmis m, bereikšmė f
Maori: hakihakiā

Norwegian:
Bokmål: meningsløs, meiningsløs, meningslaus, meiningslaus

Nynorsk: meiningslaus
Ottoman Turkish: بی معنی‎ (bîma’nâ)
Polish: bez znaczenia
Portuguese: insignificante (pt), sem sentido
Russian: бессмы́сленный (ru) (bessmýslennyj)
Scots: meaninless
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бѐсмислен

Roman: bèsmislen (sh)
Spanish: sin sentido
Telugu: అర్థంలేని (arthaṃlēni)
Thai: ไม่มีความหมาย (mai-mii-kwaam-mǎai), ไร้ความหมาย (rái-kwaam-mǎai)
Turkish: anlamsız (tr), boş (tr), manasız (tr)
Ukrainian: безглуздий (uk) (bezhluzdyj)
Vietnamese: vô nghĩa (vi)

insignificant

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