Skip to main content

inanity

/ih-nan-i-tee/US // ɪˈnæn ɪ ti //UK // (ɪˈnænɪtɪ) //

虚无缥缈,荒唐,荒诞不经,荒诞

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·an·i·ties for 2.

    • : lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness.
    • : something inane.
    • : shallowness; superficiality.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Apart from the inanities when they do show up, there’s no clear blueprint on the plans to tackle this crisis.

  • And I can tap and tap and tap and yo and yo and yo, contemplating or not contemplating the inanity that is this life.

  • Forget the humor of Stephen Colbert, wisdom of Steve Jobs, or inanity of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

  • Urbanski can hold forth on the inanity of man-made climate change like a pro.

  • Perhaps I was but startled yesterday to find a celestial loveliness where I expected to encounter pallid inanity.

  • Profane inanity, I repeat; for every helpless woman is a living, intolerable blasphemy against the Most High.

  • In fashionable speech inanity began to be replaced by profanity.

  • They smile at each other with perfect and well-bred inanity for a second, and then Fred Lasceet slips in between them.

  • It were a mockery, an inanity, to bid a man spend his affections on hypostatized laws that neither know nor answer him.