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I think when Fox News goes to the Megyn Kellys, the Bret Baiers, and people who don't have much experience who haven't covered campaigns, the result is sometimes you have these inane questions that come out and, frankly, waste everybody's time.
David Shuster

Meaning of "inane" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INANE

From Latin inānis empty.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INANE

inane  [ɪˈneɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INANE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inane is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INANE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of inane in the English dictionary

The definition of inane in the dictionary is senseless, unimaginative, or empty; unintelligent.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INANE


Bahrain
bɑːˈreɪn
brain
breɪn
campaign
kæmˈpeɪn
catenane
ˈkætɪˌneɪn
chain
tʃeɪn
contain
kənˈteɪn
domain
dəˈmeɪn
explain
ɪkˈspleɪn
gain
ɡeɪn
jane
dʒeɪn
lain
leɪn
lane
leɪn
main
meɪn
Maine
meɪn
maintain
meɪnˈteɪn
nain
neɪn
nonane
ˈnəʊneɪn
obtain
əbˈteɪn
pain
peɪn
plain
pleɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INANE

inalienable
inalienableness
inalienably
inalterability
inalterable
inalterableness
inalterably
inamorata
inamorati
inamorato
inanely
inaneness
inanga
inanimate
inanimately
inanimateness
inanimation
inanities
inanition
inanity

WORDS THAT END LIKE INANE

airplane
ane
bane
Brisbane
cane
crane
Dane
Dunsinane
humane
hurricane
hydroplane
insane
kane
mane
membrane
nane
on the wane
pane
Spokane
thane

Synonyms and antonyms of inane in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INANE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inane» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inane

Translation of «inane» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INANE

Find out the translation of inane to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inane from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inane» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

空洞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inane
570 millions of speakers

English

inane
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेहूदा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تافه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бессмысленный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inane
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফাঁকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inepte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inane
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

albern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無意味な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어리석은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trống không
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முட்டாள்தனமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असमान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anlamsız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sciocco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezmyślne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безглуздий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fără sens
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βλακώδεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ligsinnig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inane
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tåpelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inane

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INANE»

The term «inane» is regularly used and occupies the 62.935 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INANE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inane

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3 QUOTES WITH «INANE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inane.
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David Shuster
I think when Fox News goes to the Megyn Kellys, the Bret Baiers, and people who don't have much experience who haven't covered campaigns, the result is sometimes you have these inane questions that come out and, frankly, waste everybody's time.
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Kevin Smith
Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
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Kim Swift
Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INANE»

Discover the use of inane in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inane and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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More Inane Humor from Tuwallomie O'Toole
MORE INANE HUMOR FROM TUWALLOMIE O'TOOLE Copyright © 2007 by Allan Marcus All rights reserved. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters , places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination, or are used  ...
Allan Marcus, 2007
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Aristotelis Stagiritae, peripateticorum principis, Natvralis ...
flum,& inane>reidem fint>ratione ta л turn différant : quo- niam idem quatenus eft capax &fufceptiuum corporis, vo- camrlocusrquetenusaucem a&u eft deftitutum corpore* nominatur iaane: & cuma&u continet corpus,appellacur plenum.
Aristotle, 1629
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T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex
Principio quoniam duplex natura duarum dissimilis rerum longe constare repertast, corporis atque loci, res in quo quaeque geruntur, 505 esse utramque sibi per se puramque necessest. nam quacumque vacat spatium, quod inane vocamus, ...
Titus Carus Lucretius, 1866
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Inane Balderdash
Once again, David Q. Tague politely invades your free time with this "second helping of hullabaloo," specifically designed to: Disrupt the Status Quo Dismantle Your Current Belief Systems Dispel, Disassemble, and Discard all of the ...
David Q. Tague, 2009
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Stupid Wars: A Citizen's Guide to Botched Putsches, Failed ...
These stupid wars have been launched by democracies as well as monarchies and dictatorships, in recent decades just as often as in less "enlightened" times.
Ed Strosser, Michael Prince, 2008
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The Works of Virgil: Translated Into English Prose, as Near ...
Non jam conjugium antiquum, quod prodidit, oro; 431 Nec pulchro ut Latlo careat , regnumque rtlin- quat : Tempus inane peto, requiem fpatiumque furori j Dum mea me viétam doceat fortuna doleré. Extremam hanc oro veniam : (miferere ...
Virgil, 1730
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Soliloquies
R. Does it then seem to thee either that Truth made the inane, or that there is anything true where Truth is not? A. Neither seems true. R. The inane therefore is not true, because neither could it become inane by that which is not inane: and it is ...
St. Augustin
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NPNF1-07. St. Augustine: Homilies on the Gospel of John; ...
R. The inane therefore is not true, because neither could it become inane by that which is not inane: and it is manifest that what is void of truth is not true; and, in fine, that very thing which is called inane, is so called because it is nothing.
Philip Schaff
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Greek-Latin Philosophical Interaction
(7) 'place', (8) 'void', and any other extra-categorials.19 Elsewhere the same author tells us that the void (inane) has a being of its own (suum esse per se),2u and the same is said about enunciables in yet another near- contemporary text. 21 ...
Sten Ebbesen, 2008
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Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can ...
Argues that the decline in reading by children in the United States is furthered by schools by focusing on test-taking and focusing solely on academic texts with guidance for educators on how to conteract this trend.
Kelly Gallagher, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INANE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inane is used in the context of the following news items.
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Avignon's nude direction for Shakespeare - FT.com
And when five actors proceed to strip in full view before a line has been uttered, as in Nathalie Garraud's inane Soudain la nuit, what purpose is ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
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YEP Letters: July 17 - Yorkshire Evening Post
Of course it does not help when some people make inane comments like it makd the cricket field 'lighter.' I've never heard such a silly argument ... «Yorkshire Evening Post, Jul 15»
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Stop bashing the Apple Watch! | CIO
These people generally have their heads up their asses and once you realize that you will learn to immediately discount any of their inane ... «CIO, Jul 15»
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Reddit to put limit on content of posts, users kick back - ABC
... about the social bulletin board being an online venue for users to say whatever they want, no matter how inane, outrageous, or offensive. «ABC Online, Jul 15»
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'Pirates of Penzance' provides a summer romp | Things to do in …
Pirates tells the inane story of Frederic, an accidently indentured pirate, who upon his 21st birthday fulfills his duty to his kooky, but lovable ... «Tampabay.com, Jul 15»
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National Reform Summit must aim to find common ground | afr.com
That fragmentation has been turbocharged again by social media, some of it inane, and the 24/7 media cycle. It has bred a generation of ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
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10 Stories We'd Love (And 10 We'd Hate) in the Back To The Future …
An explanation of this would be inane and likely infuriating. 7) Anything 2015 Marty - While the story of his kids would be super cool, 2015 Marty ... «io9, Jul 15»
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NZ First deems leaked sales list 'old news' - New Zealand Herald
"This allegation of racism is puerile and inane in the extreme." Mr Peters said China's change in regulations had unleashed a flood of cash that ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
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Lamarr Houston: There won't be much to laugh about this season …
Makes no sense that the Raiders, and now Bears, to play him at DE. Moving him to 34 OLB is even more inane. sactogary says: Jul 16, 2015 ... «NBCSports.com, Jul 15»
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Seven Days With Alexa: A Love Story - ARC - ARC
Not because she was an amazing conversationalist, but because she listened when I talked and didn't interrupt with inane comments about ... «ARC, Jul 15»

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