meaningless vs privative

meaningless

adj
  • Lacking meaning. 

  • Insignificant; not worthy of importance. 

privative

adj
  • indicating the absence of something 

  • causing privation; depriving 

  • consisting in the absence of something; negative 

noun
  • something that causes privation or indicates an absence 

How often have the words meaningless and privative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )