Roget's Thesaurus#517. Unmeaningness[Absence of meaning.]Nounsmeaninglessness, unmeaningness etc. adj.; scrabble. empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing; sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae [Lat.]; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock [U.S.]; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity etc. 497; vagueness etc. (unintelligibility) 519. [routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp. legal] boilerplate, cliche. Verbsmean nothing; be unmeaning etc. adj.; twaddle, quibble, scrabble. Adjectivesunmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense etc. 516. inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant etc. 516; insignificant. trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling. unmeant, not expressed; tacit etc. (latent) 526. inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable. |