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ɪˈneɪninane

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  1. inaneadjective

    Lacking sense or meaning (often implying, to the point of boredom or annoyance).

    This supremely gifted kid told me that in the early elementary grades, the songs sung in music class were so inane that he wanted to skip grades already! Eventually he did, so better late than never.

    Synonyms:
    fatuous, vapid, silly

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.5 / 2 votes

  1. inane

    Synonyms:
    empty, pointless, vapid, feeble, characterless

    Antonyms:
    significant, pointed, powerful, sensible, forcible

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuousadjective

    devoid of intelligence

    Synonyms:
    unmindful, fatuous, hollow, vacuous, mindless, reasonless, asinine, senseless, forgetful, blank, empty

    Antonyms:
    wise

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inaneadjective

    Synonyms:
    empty, void

  2. inaneadjective

    Synonyms:
    vain, frivolous, trifling, puerile

  3. inanenoun

    Synonyms:
    [Rare.] void, vacuity, vacuum, empty space

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "inane":

    insignificant

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#2964empty
#3961blank
#8155silly
#9566hollow
#18270pointless
#18688mindless
#20267insignificant
#31313feeble
#35057senseless
#51242inane
#64449forgetful
#83005vacuous
#85467asinine
#94014vapid
#128000fatuous
#155481unmindful
#292748characterless

How to use inane in a sentence?

  1. Søren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848:

    Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.


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