| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| meaningless, mindless, nonsensical, senseless, silly (adjs.) |
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| All are loosely synonymous, sharing a sense of behavior or ideas that don’t help. If it’s meaningless, it serves no purpose and communicates no idea. Mindless means “thoughtless,” “without intellectual content,” or even “heedless or careless.” Senseless adds “stupid, foolish, and irrational” to the senses associated with mindless, and nonsensical and silly suggest again the “irrational” but also “foolish” and “purposeless.” | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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