Crossword-Solution: INANE 5 letters, 311 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word Word Type Definition
Inane a. Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence;
purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless.
Inane n. That which is void or empty.

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Word Anagrams
INANE anagram ANNIE, NANIE, NENIA, NINEA

We have 311 clues for the answer “INANE”

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*Fatuous (NC + ME) 1 answer
Absolutely absurd 1 answer
Absolutely ludicrous 1 answer
Absolutely ridiculous 1 answer
Annoyingly meaningless 1 answer
Beyond banal 1 answer
Beyond foolish 1 answer
Beyond illogical 1 answer
Causing the furrowing of eyebrows, say 1 answer
Completely silly 1 answer
Defying logic 1 answer
Devoid of import 1 answer
Devoid of intelligence 1 answer
Devoid of logic 1 answer
Devoid of sense 1 answer
Dopey or goofy 1 answer
Downright dumb 1 answer
Downright foolish 1 answer
Downright silly 1 answer
Drivel description 1 answer
Dumb and then some 1 answer
Duncelike 1 answer
Eliciting a "Seriously?" 1 answer
Empty of significance 1 answer
Empty, void. 1 answer
Empty-minded 1 answer
Far from meaningful 1 answer
Far from sensible 1 answer
Fatuous or feckless 1 answer
Fatuous or poppycockish 1 answer
Foolheaded 1 answer
Foolish ... or, when read as three words, how this puzzle's other four "foolish" answers are arranged 1 answer
Foolish and then some 1 answer
Having zero gravity 1 answer
Hollow-headed 1 answer
Idiotic, as an idea 1 answer
Impossible to take seriously 1 answer
Incredibly silly 1 answer
LACKING sense 1 answer
Lacking a point 1 answer
Lacking any point 1 answer
Lacking meaning 1 answer
Lame brained 1 answer
Laughably stupid 1 answer
Less than logical 1 answer
Light-minded 1 answer
Like Goofy 1 answer
Like a Three Stooges routine 1 answer
Like a dum-dum 1 answer
Like a dunderhead 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INANE (5)

She often found herself sneering when she was on a street-car, or when she was brushing out her hair before her mirror, as some inane remark or too familiar mannerism flitted across her mind.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
But before he could utter a preliminary word of protest, a pleasant, though distinctly inane laugh, was heard from outside, and the next moment an unusually tall and very richly dressed figure appeared in the doorway.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Nearly 20 minutes was spent answering their inane questions regarding how many courses were involved and who found the `suspect' critiques.
Wild Justice Ruth M. Sprague 1994
Sing hey, sing ho, for the winds that blow, And a grave deep down in the ice and snow, A grave in the land of gold."_ Day after day of darkness, the whirl of the seething snows; Day after day of blindness, the swoop of the stinging blast; On through a blur of fury the swing of staggering blows; On through a world of turmoil, empty, inane and vast.
Ballads of a Cheechako Robert W. Service 2008
And how inane was the life he led, lounging about bars and drinking in music halls, wandering from one light amour to another! He never read a book, he was blind to everything that was not frivolous and vulgar; he had never a thought that was fine: the word most common on his lips was smart; that was his highest praise for man or woman.
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1995

Quotes with INANE (3)

Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their frequent recourse to spurious alternatives. The lesser lights inform us that the alternative to Christianity is materialism, thus showing how little they have read, while the greater lights talk as if the alternative were bound to be a shallow and inane optimism. I don't believe that man will turn this earth into a bed of roses eith…
Walter Kaufmann
The Friend of Your Youth is the only friend you will ever have, for he does not really see you. He sees in his mind a face that does not exist anymore, speaks a name — Spike, Bud, Snip, Red, Rusty, Jack, Dave — which belongs to that now nonexistent face but which by some inane doddering confusion of the universe is for the moment attached to a not happily met and boring stranger. But he humors the drooling doddering confusion of the universe and continues to address politely …
Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men
New Rule: Never underestimate the ability of a tiny fringe group of losers to ruin everything. We've all been laughing heartily at the wacky antics of the "birthers"--the far-right goofballs who claim Obama wasn't really born in Hawaii, and therefore the job of the president goes to the runner-up, Miss California Carrie Prejean. And there's nothing you can do to convince these people--you could hand them, in person, the original birth certificate, with the placenta, and have …
Bill Maher The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,305 times in crossword archives (1917–2025).