inane
in·ane (in ān′)
adjective
- empty; vacant
- lacking sense or meaning; foolish; silly
Etymology: L inanis
noun
that which is inane; esp., the void of infinite space
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.
The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man Passionless?öno, yet free from guilt or pain, Which were, for his will made or suffered them, Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.
Browse dictionary entries near inane
- inamorata
- inalterable
- inalienable
- -inae
- inadvisedly
- inadvisable
- inadvertently
- inadvertent
- inadvertence
- inadmissible
- inanimate
- inanition
- inanity
- inapparent
- inappeasable
- inappetence
- inapplicable
- inapposite
- inappreciable
- inappreciative
