unmeaningly

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adverb

Without any meaning.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbunmeaningly (comparative more unmeaningly, superlative most unmeaningly)

comparative more unmeaningly · superlative most unmeaningly

  1. Without any meaning.

    Apropos of Van Balen, an artist who painted me lately had painted a blackamoor praying; and not filling his canvas, stuffed in his little girl aside of a blacky gaping at him unmeaningly; and then did not know what to call it.

    1942, Eva Beatrice Dykes, The Negro in English Romantic Thought, page 91
  2. Unintentionally.

    All unmeaningly I started a little argument that furnished you with some splendid discussions, and, though my name wasn't mentioned, I'll admit it.

    1929, Printers' Ink, volume 147, page 128

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

unmeaningly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmeaningly

MLA

“unmeaningly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmeaningly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmeaningly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmeaningly.

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