non-meaningful
adjective
(alsononmeaningful)uk /ˌnɒnˈmiː.nɪŋ.fəl/ us /ˌnɑːnˈmiː.nɪŋ.fəl/
not having or intended to show a meaning or purpose:
If you don't know the words to the song you can just sing non-meaningful syllables in their place.
They studied mothers' responses to their young children's non-meaningful utterances.
Synonym
meaningless
The study examined the learning of unknown words embedded in meaningful and non-meaningful contexts.
Nonmeaningful visual information is harder to recall.
Their responses were categorized as meaningful and non-meaningful.
At this stage the child mainly produces nonmeaningful vocalizations.
To simply repeat every word without explanation would be nonmeaningful.
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