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[ UK /pˈɔ‍ɪntləs/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɪntɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. not having a point especially a sharp point
    my pencils are all pointless
  3. 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.
  • 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.
  • We know that is pointless to stir a desire for free flight in people if they can't then find instructors to teach them.
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