unmeaningly

English

Etymology

unmeaning +‎ -ly

Adverb

unmeaningly (comparative more unmeaningly, superlative most unmeaningly)

1. Without any meaning.
   • 1942, Eva Beatrice Dykes, The Negro in English Romantic Thought, page 91:

     Apropos of Van Balen, an artist who painted me lately had painted a blackamoor praying; and not filling his canvas, stuffed in his little girl aside of a blacky gaping at him unmeaningly; and then did not know what to call it.

2. Unintentionally.
   • 1929, Printers' Ink, volume 147, page 128:

     All unmeaningly I started a little argument that furnished you with some splendid discussions, and, though my name wasn't mentioned, I'll admit it.