inane

Speech parts

1. inane - Noun

2. inane - Adjective

3. inane - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless.

That which is void or empty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fatuous asinine daft mad madder half-baked empty shallow hollow blank useless vacant insane absurd crazy
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Antonyms

down-to-earth politic practical strategic tactical manned
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Phrases with the word

less inane

Anagrams

nenia Annie

Examples

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. Wallace Stevens

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me. Geezer Butler

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks. Kevin Smith

Most scientists today are devoid of ideas, full of fear, intent on producing some paltry result so that they can add to the flood of inane papers that now constitutes "scientific progress" in many areas. Paul Karl Feyerabend

I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of the mentally deficient, but it seems I asked too much of fate. Saki

Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Close letter words and terms

inamovable inamrinone inamyloid inanely inaneness inanery