meaningless

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• render: However, the absence of such material can in itself render the resource meaningless.

Modifies a noun

• drivel: Some are completely dominated by meaningless commercial drivel designed to exploit the darker side of human nature.
• jumble: But they were merely a meaningless jumble of letters.
• platitude: Selectors will take refuge - if you let them - in meaningless platitudes.
• jargon: From empty cliché to meaningless jargon, the English language is under attack from all sides.
• friendlies: Exhibition games are the NFL equivalent of football's meaningless pre-season friendlies.
• rhetoric: This is meaningless rhetoric, marketing spiel for selling ribbons, t-shirts and rubber wristbands.

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: Something like ' Invalid File Offset ' will be utterly meaningless to most users.
• virtually: Changing electoral boundaries over the twenty year period have made a longitudinal analysis of ward data virtually meaningless.
• essentially: If we do not believe in God then we believe the world and our lives to be essentially meaningless.
• seemingly: Toss a seemingly meaningless question into the conversational stew.
• practically: A definite trend is evident... These data are are practically meaningless.
• totally: I mean what is the point in producing work which is totally meaningless to anyone else.

Infinitive complement

• ask: We can ask questions about the characters which are meaningless to ask about the author.

Used with adjective complement

• render: Without such global action, our national efforts at sustainable development will ultimately be rendered meaningless.
• become: The data can become meaningless in the absence of a schema.
• seem: All of which had begun to seem meaningless to Faith, particularly now with the girls away.
• appear: In the present context, where there are no expected benefits for the participant, this phrase appears meaningless.
• prove: Short qualifications from other Colleges may in the long term prove meaningless.

Preposition: in

• context: Titles such as ' Home Page ' are meaningless in this context.