Inane

Definition: Inane

Inane

Adjective

1. Complacently or inanely foolish.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "inane" was first used: 1662. (references)

Synonyms: Inane

Inutility

Vain, empty, inane; gainless, profitless, fruitless; unserviceable, unprofitable; ill-spent; unproductive; hors de combat; effete, past work; (impaired); obsolete; (old); fit for the dust hole; good for nothing; of no earthly use; not worth having, not worth powder and shot; leading to no end, uncalled for; unnecessary, unneeded.

Unimportance

Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.

Unsubstantiality

Vacant, vacuous; empty; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane.

Crosswords: Inane

Latin (empty, empty space, expanse, foolish, hollow, inane, part of structure, space devoid of matter, vain, void), Spanish (inane).

It's just that you're two inches from my head, polluting my brain with your inane ramblings and buzzing through those chips like some queer gopher (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

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Books

• Looking Bad: A Collection of 30 Inane People Trying to Look Good (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i pamend (brainless, dizzy, dumb, foolish, injudicious, mad, mindless, pinheaded, rattle-brained, rattle-headed), i pakuptim (absurd, empty, insignificant, meaningless, pointless, senseless, unnamed, vacuous), bosh (bare, bladdery, blank, empty, fiddling, gassy, hollow, hot air, idle, milk and water, open, thin, trifling, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void, white). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فارغ (barren, blank, empty, flatulent, hollow, idle, leisure, meaningless, pointless, senseless, silly, stupid, vacuous, vain, windy), ‏فراغ (air, blank, completion, emptiness, finishing, free time, gap, idleness, inanity, leisure, nothingness, space, spare time, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), нелеп (absurd, farcical, fatuous, incongruous, inept, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous, screwy), безсъдържателен (empty, idle, insignificant, jejune, meager, meagre, pithless, sterile, unmeaning, vacuous, vain, watery), безсмислен (absurd, aimless, futile, insensate, inutile, meaningless, mindless, needless, nonsense, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, purposeless, senseless, sorry, stupid, tomfool, unmeaning, vacuous, vain), безкрайно пространство (infinite), без стойност (hollow, naught, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, valueless, worthless), пуст (bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, drear, empty, harsh, infernal, inhospitable, uncouth, uninhabited, vacant, vain, waste, wild, yeasty), празен (airy, airy fairy, bare, barren, blank, empty, hollow, idle, light, loose, piffling, pithless, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty). (various references)

Chinese 

空 (Empty). (various references)

Czech

prázdný (bare, blank, clean, disused, empty, hollow, light, meaningless, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, vapid, void, windy), nejapný (clumsy, crude, gauche, inept), hloupý (awkward, brainless, cretinous, daft, dull, empty headed, fatuous, fat-witted, foolish, half-witted, lame brain, logy, mutton-headed, silly, soft-brained, spoony, stupid, thick, thickskulled). (various references)

Farsi 

فضای نامحدود, پوچ (Absurd, Airy, Empty, Hollow, Inoperative, Invalid, Nude, Nugatory, Sawdust, Unmeaning, Vacuous, Vain, Void), چرند (Baloney, Bilk, Corny, Crap, Hokum, Jive, Ludicrous, Nonsensical, Rigmarole, Shenanigan, Silly, Stuff, Trashy, Unmeaning, Windy), تهی (Barren, Basic, Devoid, Empty, Hollow, Indigent, Jejune, Leer, Toom, Vacuous, Vain, Void), احمق (Asinine, Cockeyed, Cockscomb, Daft, Dense, Dopey, Dult, Fool, Gawky, Gosling, Hick, Loggerhead, Loony, Natural, Nincompoop, Noodle, Sawney, Senseless, Simpleton, Sot, Spoony, Stupid, Sucker, Unmeaning), بی مغز. (various references)

French

insensé (insane, insensate), inepte (incompetent, inept), niais, bête. (various references)

German

idiotisch (asinine, damfool, idiotic, idiotically, idioticly, imbecilic, moronic), nichtig (empty, invalid, NULL, trifling, trivial, vain, void), hirnverbrannt (hare-brained, screwball), geistlos (brainless, dull, insipid, mindless, spiritless, spiritlessly, unimaginative, unintelligently, vapid), gehaltlos (trivial, unsubstantial), dumm (addled, asinine, blockish, brainless, dull, dully, dumb, fatuous, foolish, footling, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic, inanely, oafish, obtuse, purblindly, silly, stupid, stupidly, thick, thumb, unintelligent), albern (absurd, addled, clownish, fatuous, fatuously, foolish, footling, giggly, inanely, ludicrous, ridiculous, silly, simper, simpering, simperingly, stupid). (various references)

Greek 

κενόσ (blank, devoid, vacant, vacuous, void), μάταιοσ (feckless, futile, idle, nugatory, otiose, pointless, vain), άσκοποσ (aimless, feckless, goalless, impractical, needless, objectless, pointless, purportless, purposeless), ανόητοσ (blithering, daft, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, idiot, inept, insensate, insipient, knighterrantry, ninny, nitwit, nonsensical, sappy, senseless, silly, slap happy, unwise, witless). (various references)

Hebrew 

מטופש (stupid). (various references)

Hungarian

ostoba (asinine, bird brained, blockish, brainless, Daffy, doltish, dry, dumb, dump, dunce, fatuous, feeble minded, goofy, hulking, idiotic, inept, lack-brain, lame brain, loggerheaded, Looby, numb-skull, numskull, oafish, owlish, preposterous, puerile, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, slow, sot, stupid, thick-headed, to cut capers, tomfool, witless, wooden-headed), üres (blank, claptrap, deaf, devoid, empty, exhausted, expressionless, gassy, hollow, lean, leer, leery, piffling, punk, vacant, vacuous, void). (various references)

Italian

insensato (senseless), vacuo (empty, hollow, vacant, vacuous), sciocco (addled, booby, daffy, daft, doltish, featherbrain, fool, foolish, goofy, Gotham, Looby, loon, ludicrous, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, sap, silly, simper, soppy, spoony, stupid). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

愚策 (inane plan). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぐさく (inane plan, poor work, rubbish). (various references)

Manx

follym (barren, barren as mind, blank, blank as cartridge, disengaged, empty, empty-handed, expressionless, flat, formal, free, hollow, platitudinous, run down, shallow, vacant, vacuous, void, waste, waste in town). (various references)

Norwegian

tom (empty, void), tåpelig (daft, foolish, inept). (various references)

Pig Latin

inaneay.(various references)

Portuguese

vazio (addle, bare, blank, blankness, chasm, claptrap, concave, emptiness, empty, hollow, unoccupied, vacancy, vacuity, vacuous, vacuum, vain, void), v�cuo. (various references)

Romanian

insipid (flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, mawkish, milk and water, tame, tasteless, vapid, wishy washy), stupid (doltish, dull, dull-witted, foolish, foolishly, Goosey, idiotic, idiotical, idle, inept, insipid, mindless, senseless, silly, stupid, stupidly, wooden-headed), gãunos (hollow, shallow, sunken), fãrã sens (frothy, meaningless, nonsensical, piffling, pointless). (various references)

Russian 

глупый;нудный, глупый (anserine, apish, asinine, barmy, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, brain dead, brainless, cloddish, daft, dense, doddery, drippy, fatuous, fat-witted, featherbrain, featherbrained, feather-brained, foolish, gaga, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, inept, mindless, mutton-headed, nitwitted, nonsensical, oafish, sappy, silly, simple-minded, soft-headed, spoony, stupid, thickskulled, thick-skulled, thick-witted, timber-headed, unwise, wooden-headed), бессодержательный (empty, pithless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prazan (blank, clean, cored, empty, idle, leer, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void), ništavan (naught, nought, nugatory, null, null and void, scampish, worthless). (various references)

Spanish

inane. (various references)

Swedish

tom (bladdery, blank, clear, empty, hollow, vacant, vacuous, void), fånig (fool, frivolous, futile, goofy, idiotic, oafish, silly, stupid), andefattig (barren, dull, vacant, vacuous, vapid, wooden). (various references)

Thai

โง่เขลา. (various references)

Turkish

saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), beyhude (bootless, futile, in vain, useless, vain), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit), anlamsız (absurd, barren, blank, dead pan, empty, expressionless, for the birds, frivolous, grotesque, incoherent, inept, inexpressive, insane, insignificant, meaningless, nonsense, nonsensical, of no significance, pointless, purposeless, ridiculous, senseless, sodden, unmeaning, unreasonable, vacuous, vain, yeasty). (various references)

Ukrainian

беззмістовний (bald, barren, blank, empty, insignificant, matterless, sapless, vapid), порожній (bare, empty, hollow, unoccupied, vacuous), порожнеча (blankness, vacancy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngu ngốc (chuckle-headed, cretinous, dumb, fat-headed, fatuous, feather-brained, feather-headed, feather-pate, feather-pated, idiotic, idiotical, insipient), ngớ ngẩn; vô nghĩa trống rỗng, khoảng trống vũ tr. (various references)

inane, inanem, inania, inanibus, inanis, inanitatem, inaniter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "inane": inanely, inaneness, inanenesses, inaner, inanes, inanest. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Inane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anane, Ananev, Aniane, binane, enan, enane, iae, iana, ianane, iane, Ianke, ibane, Ifano, ihnen, iiand, Ijafen, Imani, inage, inain, iname, inan, inana, inanae, inanis, inano, inany, inate, inebeg, inen, inese, Inimex, inine, inlane, inna, innage, innan, innane, innay, innel, innen, innex, inni, inno, inone, inzane, ivane, Iwaniec, Linnane, nane, niae, Niang, niene, nione, unane, Viinanen, zinnae. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nine.

-2 letters: ain, ane, ani, inn, nae, nan.

-3 letters: ae, ai, an, en, in, na, ne.

+1 letter: canine, cannie, encina, eonian, inaner, inanes, innate, insane, nannie, narine, pennia, pinnae, sienna.

+2 letters: adenine, aeonian, aginner, alanine, ancient, aneling, aneurin, anguine, aniline, annelid, anteing, antigen, asinine, beaning, biennia, canines, cannier, cyanine, deaning, eanling, earning, enamine, enation, enchain, encinal, encinas, engrain, entrain, fannies, fanzine, finance, gentian, grannie, guanine, inanely, inanest, infante, insaner, insnare, leaning, lindane, lineman, mannite, meaning, melanin, nancies, nannies, narcein, nardine, nearing, pannier, pinnace, pinnate, siennas, stanine, weaning, yeaning.