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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

absurd, aimless, airy, apish, arid, asinine, awkward, bare, barren, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blah, bland, blank, blankminded, bleached, bloodless, bonkers, bootless, brainless, buffoonish, callow, calm, catchpenny, characterless, clear, cockeyed, cold, colorless, counterproductive, crazy, credulous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dead, designless, devoid, dilute, diluted, dippy, doting, dotty, draggy, drearisome, dreary, driveling, dry, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, etiolated, fade, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feckless, flaky, flat, flavorless, flimsy, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, fuddled, futile, gaga, garbled, gauche, goofy, green, groping, gruelly, gulled, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, idiotic, idle, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic, importless, inadequate, incogitant, indifferent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexcitable, inexperienced, infatuated, innocent, innocuous, inoperative, insane, insignificant, insipid, invalid, jejune, know-nothing, kooky, laughable, leaden, lifeless, light, loony, low-spirited, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, maudlin, meaningless, mild, milk-and-water, moronic, naive, namby-pamby, nescient, nirvanic, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonsensical, nugacious, nugatory, null, null and void, nuts, nutty, oblivious, of no force, otiose, pale, pallid, pappy, passive, pedestrian, phatic, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, preposterous, pulpy, purportless, purposeless, quietistic, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, raw, relaxed, ridiculous, risible, sapless, sappy, savorless, scatterbrained, scrambled, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shallow, silly, simple, slender, slight, slow, solemn, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strange to, stuffy, stupid, superficial, tasteless, tedious, tentative, thin, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil, trifling, trite, trivial, unacquainted, unapprized, unavailing, uncomprehending, unconversant, unenlightened, unfamiliar, unflavored, unideaed, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unlively, unmeaning, unoccupied, unposted, unreasonable, unreasoning, unrelieved, unripe, unsavory, unsignificant, unsure, unthinking, unversed, useless, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, void, wacky, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wet, white, windy, wishy-washy, with nothing inside, without content, witless, wooden

Dictionary Results for inane:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

inane
    adj 1: devoid of intelligence [syn: asinine, fatuous,
           inane, mindless, vacuous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Inane \In*ane"\, a. [L. inanis.]
   Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence;
   purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless. "Vague and
   inane instincts." --I. Taylor. -- In*ane"ly, adv.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Inane \In*ane"\, n.
   That which is void or empty. [R.]
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         The undistinguishable inane of infinite space. --Locke.
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