Certain and Meaningless

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Certain adjective - Known but not named.

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Meaningless is an antonym for certain.

Nearby Words: certainty, certainly

Meaningless adjective - Having no meaning.

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Certain is an antonym for meaningless in value topic.

Nearby Words: meaning, meaningful

Berserk: The plot of the Golden Age Arc relies on a certain series of events that would be otherwise meaningless without each other.

Source: Gambit Roulette
Otherwise, the phrase would be meaningless, as Roger Ebert has noted in lamenting its misuse, since it does carry certain genre-specific connotations.

Source: Cult Classic
Then it all becomes meaningless; she's killing her rivals to become a certain professor's TA, and he goes on sabbatical when she kills the student he's sleeping with — he won't have a TA.

Source: Film / American Psycho 2: All American Girl

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