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UK
/pˈɔɪntləs/
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[ US /ˈpɔɪntɫəs/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɪntɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
a life essentially purposeless
otiose lines in a play
advice is wasted words
a pointless remark
senseless violence -
not having a point especially a sharp point
my pencils are all pointless -
having no points scores
a scoreless inning
How To Use pointless In A Sentence
- ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
- “But at the same time, it is NOT ‘pointless’ to be enthusiastically, tear-jerkingly, unwaveringly ‘proud’ of the ‘land of your birth’ â to the point where people are actually STILL SURPRISED â or even scandalized â when yet another of ‘our’ scandals come to light.” US in Police State Top 10
- I've always found them uncomfy and pointless when there are so many good mascaras out there. The Sun
- A catapult fired point-blank, and flames broke over the roiled water, but it was pointless.
- Offending drivers are to be pulled over as part of a pilot scheme and ‘given advice’ rather than booked, on the basis that it is pointless fining people for innocent mistakes.
- Comparing sportsmen, and sportswomen, of different eras has always been a fairly pointless exercise. Times, Sunday Times
- This book is an unremitting account of misery, privation, and pointlessness in a world of dun landscapes, tormenting insects, malnutrition, and cultural stagnancy.
- Aaron Burr are largely reduced to an amusing but pointless conversation with four gigantic hoodlums from Baltimore who are asked to interpret the word "despicable," which triggered the Burr-Hamilton duel. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied.
- He didn't need to listen to his college classmates ask the professor pointless questions.
