Crossword clues for inane
inane
- Lacking meaning
- Really silly
- Very silly
- Beyond belief
- Utterly absurd
- Beyond silly
- Utterly ridiculous
- Making no sense
- Completely ridiculous
- Totally pointless
- Downright dumb
- Totally silly
- Just plain silly
- Beyond foolish
- Devoid of intelligence
- Absolutely absurd
- Seriously silly
- Lacking any point
- Not very sensible
- Full of fluff
- Full of baloney
- Totally ridiculous
- Too dumb to consider
- Not worth a second thought
- Not sensible
- Like most postgame comments
- Lacking significance
- Incredibly stupid
- Hardly well-thought-out
- Devoid of substance
- Defying logic
- Completely absurd
- Absolutely ridiculous
- Worthy of ridicule
- Very stupid
- Totally goofy
- Too silly for words
- Silly or senseless
- Silly as can be
- Really stupid
- Rather lame and silly
- Lacking good sense
- Incredibly silly
- Hardly sensible
- Far from sensible
- Far from meaningful
- Completely stupid
- Utterly silly
- Utterly ludicrous
- Totally senseless
- Totally nonsensical
- Totally foolish
- Too silly to consider
- Too silly
- This clue is silly!
- Swimmer hems about brief rest (8)
- Stupefyingly silly
- Straining credulity
- Silly or mindless
- Silly beyond belief
- Silly and irrelevant
- Senselessly silly
- Senseless and ridiculous
- Rather ridiculous
- Preposterously silly
- Pointlessly silly
- Pointless and ridiculous
- Not to be considered seriously
- Not at all brilliant
- More than just a little silly
- Like twaddle
- Like spitting into the wind
- Like slapstick comedies
- Less than logical
- Laughably stupid
- Idiotic, as an idea
- Having no point
- Hardly highbrow, maybe
- Foolish and then some
- Fatuous (NC + ME)
- Eliciting a "Seriously?"
- Downright silly
- Downright foolish
- Completely silly
- Beyond illogical
- Absolutely ludicrous
- "Is ___" (apt anagram for "asinine")
- Vacant, in a way
- Amphigoric
- Idiotic (remark)
- Silly as a goose
- Absurd
- Ridiculously meaningless
- Without substance
- Foolishly silly
- Nonsensical
- Nutty
- Cockamamie
- Cuckoo
- Crazy
- Fatuous or poppycockish
- Mindlessly silly
- Empty of significance
- Off the wall
- Cockeyed
- Pointless and silly
- Senseless (comment)
- Lacking sense
- Daffy
- Lacking substance
- Dumb and then some
- Dopey or goofy
- Sans sense
- Poppycockish
- Ludicrous
- Really dumb
- Like a Three Stooges routine
- Goosy
- Stupido
- Asinine
- Not to be taken seriously
- Goofy
- Stupid and silly
- Half-witted
- Foolheaded
- Vacuous
- Witless
- Laughable
- Vapid
- Puerile
- For the birds
- Totally absurd
- Like wearing socks on your hands
- Daft
- Harebrained
- Wack
- Lacking a point
- Empty-headed
- Like folderol
- Foolish ... or, when read as three words, how this puzzle's other four "foolish" answers are arranged
- Frivolous
- Like Goofy
- This is silly!
- Silly (5)
- Like a dum-dum
- Jejune
- The void of infinite space
- Like an ament's comments
- Devoid of sense
- Fatuous or feckless
- Like a dunderhead
- Shallow
- Without point
- Trite
- Void
- Mad when last of guests leaves? That’s ridiculous
- Mad after son’s departure? That’s silly
- Stupid way clue and puzzle finish
- Stupid way Cymbeline ends?
- Some complain an examiner's stupid
- Silly way battle ends
- Silly section of refrain, an embarrassment
- Silly how love and hate both end
- Senseless idea not alerting new entrants first of all
- Senseless and mad, but not ultimately dangerous
- Fatuous characters in Twain anecdote
- How pantomime ends is silly
- How movie ends is senseless
- Delirious, at home with a clubber's pill
- To be mad not having succeeded is foolish
- That's assuming grandma is unimaginative
- Plain silly
- Without value
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inane \In*ane"\, n. That which is void or empty. [R.]
The undistinguishable inane of infinite space.
--Locke.
Inane \In*ane"\, a. [L. inanis.]
Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence;
purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless. ``Vague and
inane instincts.''
--I. Taylor. -- In*ane"ly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"silly, empty-headed," 1819, earlier "empty" (1660s), a back-formation from inanity. Related: Inanely.
Wiktionary
a. 1 lack sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance). 2 purposeless; pointless n. That which is void or empty.
WordNet
Usage examples of "inane".
I know that sounds inane, but I believe Daystar Clarion came to me for a purpose.
X-Men, listening to the audience chuckle over the inane dialog, exclaiming at the second-rate special effects, such was the nature of my thoughts, and it occurred to me that not only was the film an exemplar of cultural decline, but a parable that might be interpreted as an illumination of our essential dilemma.
A degenerate Englishman may be brutal and coarse, but he could never be guilty of the inane or the outrageous things which the Cubists, the Imagists, the Futurists, and the other Ists among the French have turned out.
Alpini Boreae nunc hinc nunc flatibus illinc Eruere inter se certant, it stridor et altae Consternunt terram concusso stipite frondes, Ipsa haeret scopulis et quantum vertice ad auras Aetherias tantum radice in Tartara tendit: Haud secus adsiduis hinc atque hinc vocibus heros Tunditur et magno persentit pectore curas, Mens immota manet, lacrimae volvuntur inanes.
I ordered two vodka martinis and we exchanged inane remarks while I watched him pour a stream of vodka into a silver shaker and add a stingy dash of vermouth.
Old Faithful must shoot up his jet of comment, neither so provocative as to drive subscribers from his paper, nor yet so inane as to be utterly contemptible.
All my efforts had been no more than my inane eagerness to fence with the intellect, as if I were in academia where one can do that very thing from 8: 00 a.
The inane bumblings of a man who should, by now, have grown senile and sessile with age?
Manfred could not afford to have Lothar dressed like a coloured labourer wandering vaguely around the house, coming into his study uninvited when he had important visitors with him, slobbering his food and making inane statements at the dinner table when he was entertaining.
Greg Freeman, “Brother-Sister Team Compiles Officials’ Most Inane Utterances,” St.
Wells draws an admirable picture of a dichotomized humanity, one branch etiolated and inane, the other brutalized and automatic.
York walked to the TV, where the canned laughter was still rattling from the inane sitcom.
It must have been all of ten years ago, her last term at Cape Town varsity, swigging draught beer in the Pig and Whistle at Randall's Hotel and talking the most inane rubbish.
All eyes were locked on the TV screens, which showed little, and Clark found himself missing the inane drivel that one expected of TV reporters, filling silence with empty words.
It was a stare that managed to convey, without being precisely rude, that Glendale was momentarily stumped because the question was so inane that he had to grope to remember the answer.