Inane

Adjective

 * 1) Lacking sense or meaning (often implying, "to the point of boredom or annoyance").
 * This supremely gifted kid told me that in the early elementary grades, the songs sung in music class were so inane that he wanted to skip grades already! Eventually he did, so better late than never.

Synonyms

 * silly, fatuous, vapid

Derived terms

 * inanely
 * inaneness
 * inanity

Adverbs for Inane
fatuously; foolishly; witlessly; utterly; unconscionably; senselessly; hopelessly; vexa-tiously; curiously; irritatingly; disagreeably; impossibly; tenuously; vaguely; vacuously; thoughtlessly; absently; irrationally; flimsily; contemptibly; uselessly; futilely; oppressively; ridiculously.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From inanis:.

Translations

 * Danish: intetsigende, åndsforladt
 * Dutch:, inhoudsloos, ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:


 * Polish: bezmyślny, głupi
 * Portuguese:, ,  ,
 * Russian:, ,  бессмысленный
 * Swedish: intetsägande

Anagrams

 * Annie

Adjective

 * 1)  useless, vain, inane

Synonyms

 * inutile, vano

Derived terms

 * inanità

Etymology
From inanis:

Anagrams

 * nenia

Adjective

 * 1) inane; pointless

Etymology
From inanis:.