Adjective modifier

• more: The more inane even say we aim to " destroy the ESF " .

Modifies a noun

• rambling: Good contents ranging from solid fannish articles to inane ramblings.

• drivel: By the way, where did all that inane drivel about a " stakeholder society " go?

• chatter: Many thanks to Jo for driving me up there, putting up with my inane chatter for 4 hrs then driving me home.

• grin: He always has an inane grin on his face. ] Mike: Oh.

• conversation: Next time you hear a fellow passenger or diner engaged in some inane conversation on his/her mobile phone try to think positively.

• comment: Yes, poor sods, they've probably been reading your inane comments in What's the Score.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: I know that sometimes, getting annoyed with inane comments, I put rather inane responses on myself.

• utterly: He's proud of his lawn and he's not going to be happy about that, was her immediate and utterly inane thought.

• often: Politicians have diminished the debate down to often inane simplicities.

• so: It all looks so inane to me, so false, not of any merit whatsoever.

• too: Mothers have been told they must stop breastfeeding for reasons too inane to discuss.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: And Mary stands and weeps again, and God still suffers pain, but for that mother standing there such comment seems inane.