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English
Etymology
From unmeaning + -ly.
Adverb
unmeaningly (comparative more unmeaningly, superlative most unmeaningly)
- 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.
- 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.