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語源

From Latin inānis (“empty, vain, useless”), of unknown origin.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ɪˈneɪn/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ɪˈnæɪn/
• 韻: -eɪn

形容詞

inane (comparative inaner or more inane, superlative inanest or most inane)

1. Lacking sense or meaning, often to the point of boredom or annoyance.

   (lacking sense): Synonyms: silly, fatuous, vapid

   This supremely gifted kid told me that in the early elementary grades, the songs sung in music class were so inane that he wanted to skip grades already! Eventually he did, so better late than never.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 237:

     Francesca followed, reluctant enough in her secret; for though she would not have admitted it even to herself, she did shrink from the infliction of the inane solemnities with which her father garnished his discourse—to say nothing of the ungracious reflections which so often glanced at herself.

   • 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 156:

     God, if she had to listen to another conversation about some kid she didnʼt know—how Tina J. stole the stage at the talent show or Bobby R. won the tee ball game or any other number of inane accomplishments.

2. Purposeless; pointless.
   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

     Vague and inane instincts.

派生語

名詞

inane (plural inanes)

1. That which is void or empty.
   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 13:

     The undistinguishable inane of infinite space.

   • 1874–1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1881, →OCLC:

     […] whom we watch as we watch the clouds careering in the windy, bottomless inane, or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals.

アナグラム

• -anine, Annie, nenia

形容詞

ināne

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of inānis

名詞

ināne n (genitive inānis); third declension

1. empty space, void, open space
2. emptiness, vanity, inanity

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

参照

• “inane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inane”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “inane”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) rich in ideas: sententiis abundans or creber (opp. sententiis inanis)
    
  • (ambiguous) mere words; empty sound: inanis verborum sonitus
    
  • (ambiguous) senseless rant: inanium verborum flumen
    
  • (ambiguous) to be misled by a vain hope: inani, falsa spe duci, induci