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–adjective

1.	lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly: inane questions.

2.	empty; void.

–noun

3.	something that is empty or void, esp. the void of infinite space.

[Origin: 1655–65; < L inānis

]

—Related forms

in·ane·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 1. pointless. See foolish.

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adj. in·an·er, in·an·est
One that lacks sense or substance: interrupting with inane comments; angry with my inane roommate.

[Latin inānis, empty, lacking sense.]

in·ane'ly adv.

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inane

"silly, empty-headed," 1819, earlier "empty" (1662), a back-formation of inanity "emptiness, hollowness" (1603), later "silliness" (1753), from Fr. inanité, from L. inanitatem "emptiness," from inanis "empty, void, worthless, useless." Inanition is attested from c.1400.

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inane
adjective
devoid of intelligence [syn: asinine]

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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.

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In*ane"\, n. That which is void or empty. [R.]

The undistinguishable inane of infinite space. --Locke.

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Inane

In`a*ni"tion\, n. [F. inanition, L. inanitio emptiness, fr. inanire to empty, fr. inanis empty. Cf. Inane.] The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.

Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. --Landor.

Repletion and inanition may both do harm in two contrary extremes. --Burton.

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