mean ‧ ing ‧ less /ˈmiːnɪŋləs/ BrE AmE adjective
[ Word Family: adjective : ↑ meaningful , ↑ meaningless ; verb : ↑ mean ; noun : ↑ meaning ; adverb : ↑ meaningfully ]
1 . having no purpose or importance and therefore not worth doing or having:
He said a few meaningless words to his hostess and looked around the room.
a repetitive and meaningless task
absolutely/utterly/completely meaningless
a statistic that is absolutely meaningless
virtually/fairly/largely meaningless
2 . not having a meaning that you can understand or explain:
Chinese characters are just meaningless symbols to me.
—meaninglessness noun [uncountable]