Synonyms for Inane | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "inane" (282 found)

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Closest matches (57)

absurd aimless airy apish arid asinine awkward bare barren batty befooled beguiled besotted blah bland blank blankminded bleached bloodless bonkers

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Adjective(1 words)

asinine

Noun(1 words)

drivelling

Strong matches (84)

dumb dusty effete elephantine emptyempty headedempty-headed empty-minded empty-pated empty-skulled etiolated fade fatuitous fatuous featureless feckless flaky flat flavorless flimsy

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Adjective(3 words)

fatuous frivolous insubstantial

Noun(1 words)

horseshit

Related words (141)

lunatic mad maudlin meaningless mildmilk-and-watermoronic naivenamby pambynamby-pamby nescient nirvanic nonconnotative nondenotative nonsensical nugacious nugatory nullnull and voidnuts

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nutty obliviousof no forceotiose 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 stodgystrange tostuffy stupid superficial tasteless tedious tentative thin thoughtfree thoughtless tranquil trifling trite trivial unacquaintedunacquainted withunapprized 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 unwise useless vacant vacuity vacuous vain vapid void wacky washy wateredwatered downwatered-down watery weak wet white windywishy washywishy-washywith nothing insidewithout contentwithout rhyme or reasonwitless wooden zany

Adjective(6 words)

meaningless pointless silly trivial vacuous vapid

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

3 entries

evaluationevaluative termquality descriptor

More specific

5 entries

banal commentempty phraseempty rhetoricfrivolous digressionfrivolous remark

Collocations

6 entries

inane chatterinane digressioninane jokeinane questioninane remarkinane rhetoric

Inflections

2 entries

more inanemost inane

Derivations

2 entries

inanely inanity

similar

1 entries

stupid

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Non sequitur is the last resort of the inane.

Source: tatoeba (2027658)

It was completely inane.

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I can't stand such number of inane trivialities.

Source: tatoeba (7918323)

Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and he believed it because he could see that they might easily be so.

Source: tatoeba (11783545)

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