Meaning

2 senses
  1. Lacking sense or meaning, often 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.

    sinnlos, albern, bedeutungslos

    глу́пыйglúpyj, пусто́йpustój, бессмы́сленныйbessmýslennyj

  2. Purposeless; pointless.

    vergeblich, zwecklos

    бесце́льныйbescélʹnyj, бессмы́сленныйbessmýslennyj

More definitions
  • extremely silly or stupid

Examples

3 sentences
  1. I can't stand such number of inane trivialities.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · fpp · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. Non sequitur is the last resort of the inane.

    ruНелогичное умозаключение - последнее прибежище пустомели.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · halfb1t · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. It was completely inane.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Eccles17 · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
lacking sense or meaning:
purposeless; pointless:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
lacking sense or meaning:
purposeless; pointless:

Origin

From Latin inānis (“empty, vain, useless”), of unknown origin.

From Latin inānis (“empty, vain, useless”), of unknown origin.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

inaner/more inane, inanest/most inane
Comparativeinaner / more inane Lesson
Superlativeinanest / most inane Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
inane — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto