inane
Inane \In*ane"\, a. [L. inanis.]
Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence;
purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless. "Vague and
inane instincts." --I. Taylor. -- {In*ane"ly}, adv.
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Inane \In*ane"\, n.
That which is void or empty. [R.]
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The undistinguishable inane of infinite space. --Locke.
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inane
adj : complacently or inanely foolish [syn: {asinine}, {fatuous},
{mindless}, {vacuous}]
254 Moby Thesaurus words for "inane":
absurd, aimless, airy, apish, arid, asinine, awkward, bare, barren,
batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blah, bland, blank,
blankminded, bleached, bloodless, bonkers, bootless, brainless,
buffoonish, callow, calm, catchpenny, characterless, clear,
cockeyed, cold, colorless, counterproductive, crazy, credulous,
cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dead, designless, devoid, dilute,
diluted, dippy, doting, dotty, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
driveling, dry, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, effete, elephantine,
empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled,
etiolated, fade, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feckless, flaky,
flat, flavorless, flimsy, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fribble,
fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, fuddled, futile, gaga,
garbled, gauche, goofy, green, groping, gruelly, gulled, heavy,
ho-hum, hollow, idiotic, idle, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic,
importless, inadequate, incogitant, indifferent, ineffective,
ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexcitable, inexperienced,
infatuated, innocent, innocuous, inoperative, insane,
insignificant, insipid, invalid, jejune, know-nothing, kooky,
laughable, leaden, lifeless, light, loony, low-spirited, ludicrous,
lunatic, mad, maudlin, meaningless, mild, milk-and-water, moronic,
naive, namby-pamby, nescient, nirvanic, nonconnotative,
nondenotative, nonsensical, nugacious, nugatory, null,
null and void, nuts, nutty, oblivious, of no force, otiose, pale,
pallid, pappy, passive, pedestrian, phatic, plodding, pointless,
poky, ponderous, preposterous, pulpy, purportless, purposeless,
quietistic, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, raw, relaxed, ridiculous,
risible, sapless, sappy, savorless, scatterbrained, scrambled,
screwy, senseless, sentimental, shallow, silly, simple, slender,
slight, slow, solemn, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff,
stodgy, strange to, stuffy, stupid, superficial, tasteless,
tedious, tentative, thin, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil,
trifling, trite, trivial, unacquainted, unapprized, unavailing,
uncomprehending, unconversant, unenlightened, unfamiliar,
unflavored, unideaed, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated,
unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unlively, unmeaning,
unoccupied, unposted, unreasonable, unreasoning, unrelieved,
unripe, unsavory, unsignificant, unsure, unthinking, unversed,
useless, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, void, wacky, washy, watered,
watered-down, watery, weak, wet, white, windy, wishy-washy,
with nothing inside, without content, witless, wooden
Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence;
purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless. "Vague and
inane instincts." --I. Taylor. -- {In*ane"ly}, adv.
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Inane \In*ane"\, n.
That which is void or empty. [R.]
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The undistinguishable inane of infinite space. --Locke.
[1913 Webster]
inane
adj : complacently or inanely foolish [syn: {asinine}, {fatuous},
{mindless}, {vacuous}]
254 Moby Thesaurus words for "inane":
absurd, aimless, airy, apish, arid, asinine, awkward, bare, barren,
batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blah, bland, blank,
blankminded, bleached, bloodless, bonkers, bootless, brainless,
buffoonish, callow, calm, catchpenny, characterless, clear,
cockeyed, cold, colorless, counterproductive, crazy, credulous,
cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dead, designless, devoid, dilute,
diluted, dippy, doting, dotty, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
driveling, dry, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, effete, elephantine,
empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled,
etiolated, fade, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feckless, flaky,
flat, flavorless, flimsy, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fribble,
fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, fuddled, futile, gaga,
garbled, gauche, goofy, green, groping, gruelly, gulled, heavy,
ho-hum, hollow, idiotic, idle, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic,
importless, inadequate, incogitant, indifferent, ineffective,
ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexcitable, inexperienced,
infatuated, innocent, innocuous, inoperative, insane,
insignificant, insipid, invalid, jejune, know-nothing, kooky,
laughable, leaden, lifeless, light, loony, low-spirited, ludicrous,
lunatic, mad, maudlin, meaningless, mild, milk-and-water, moronic,
naive, namby-pamby, nescient, nirvanic, nonconnotative,
nondenotative, nonsensical, nugacious, nugatory, null,
null and void, nuts, nutty, oblivious, of no force, otiose, pale,
pallid, pappy, passive, pedestrian, phatic, plodding, pointless,
poky, ponderous, preposterous, pulpy, purportless, purposeless,
quietistic, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, raw, relaxed, ridiculous,
risible, sapless, sappy, savorless, scatterbrained, scrambled,
screwy, senseless, sentimental, shallow, silly, simple, slender,
slight, slow, solemn, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff,
stodgy, strange to, stuffy, stupid, superficial, tasteless,
tedious, tentative, thin, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil,
trifling, trite, trivial, unacquainted, unapprized, unavailing,
uncomprehending, unconversant, unenlightened, unfamiliar,
unflavored, unideaed, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated,
unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unlively, unmeaning,
unoccupied, unposted, unreasonable, unreasoning, unrelieved,
unripe, unsavory, unsignificant, unsure, unthinking, unversed,
useless, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, void, wacky, washy, watered,
watered-down, watery, weak, wet, white, windy, wishy-washy,
with nothing inside, without content, witless, wooden