English

Adjective

inane ‎(comparative more inane, superlative most inane)

1. Lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance).

   This supremely gifted kid told me that in the early elementary grades, the songs sung in music class were so inane that he wanted to skip grades already! Eventually he did, so better late than never.

2. Purposeless; pointless.
   • I. Taylor

     Vague and inane instincts.

Synonyms

• (lacking sense): silly, fatuous, vapid

Derived terms

• inanely
• inanity

Translations

Noun

inane ‎(plural inanes)

1. That which is void or empty.
   • Locke

     The undistinguishable inane of infinite space.

   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     [...] whom we watch as we watch the clouds careering in the windy, bottomless inane, or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals.

Anagrams

• Annie

Italian

Etymology

From Latin inanis

Adjective

inane m, f ‎(masculine and feminine plural inani)

1. (literary) useless, vain, inane

Synonyms

• inutile, vano

Derived terms

• inanità

Anagrams

• nenia

Latin

Adjective

ināne

1. nominative neuter singular of inānis
2. accusative neuter singular of inānis
3. vocative neuter singular of inānis

References

• inane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “inane”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) rich in ideas: sententiis abundans or creber (opp. sententiis inanis)
    
  • (ambiguous) mere words; empty sound: inanis verborum sonitus
    
  • (ambiguous) senseless rant: inanium verborum flumen
    
  • (ambiguous) to be misled by a vain hope: inani, falsa spe duci, induci
    

Portuguese

Adjective

inane m, f ‎(plural inanes, comparable)

1. inane (lacking sense or meaning)

Synonyms

• vão, vazio, fútil

Related terms

• inanição

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin inanis.

Adjective

inane m, f ‎(plural inanes)

1. inane; pointless