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contentless

7.5

A word with little real meaning that mainly helps grammar

adjective
/ˈkɒntɛntləs/

Specialized

: vacío

Some words in the sentence were contentless, serving only to connect the ideas without adding meaning.

Examples

This week brings a new scene to start memorizing for project #4, the same hefty dialogue with a different scene partner in Acting Lab Wednesday, as well as a contentless scene for Intro.

Blog text (4)
In the play, the actors had to perform a contentless scene to focus on their blocking.
The student's essay was criticized for being too contentless, with no arguments or insights.

Synonyms

empty

vscontentless

351 3.7

Feeling like you have no feelings inside

is applied to items serving mainly a grammatical placeholder function

meaningless

vscontentless

226 5.1

Having no meaning, value, or purpose

is limited to having little lexical meaning for grammatical function

vacuous

vscontentless

Formal

5 8.1

Having no real meaning or importance

is used mainly as a grammatical placeholder with little lexical meaning

nonmeaningful

vscontentless

7.6

Not useful or important

is narrower, used mainly for grammatical or placeholder roles

vacuo

vscontentless

Archaic

9.9

Being empty and having no real meaning or value

is a grammatical filler that serves little lexical meaning

Antonyms

meaningful

327 3.3

Something that has a clear purpose or that is important

substantive

Formal

88 6.3

Important and having real meaning or value

Surface Forms

contentless positive

Morphology

contentless = content (transparent) = content + less

The meaning is directly derived from 'content' with the suffix '-less' indicating absence.

Etymology

Contentless is made from content and -less. The root content comes from a Latin verb meaning 'to hold' and appears in English words like contain and container, while -less means 'without', so a 'contentless' word holds no 'meaning' and is only a grammar word.