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Pointless   /pˈɔɪntləs/   Listen
Pointless

adjective
1.
Not having a point especially a sharp point.  Synonym: unpointed.
2.
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.  Synonyms: otiose, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted.  "Advice is wasted words" , "A pointless remark" , "A life essentially purposeless" , "Senseless violence"



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"Pointless" Quotes from Famous Books



... pointless satire had appeared under the title of La Cordonniere de Loudun, in which the Cardinal figured: Pere Joseph insinuated that Grandier was the author, and the ...
— Barn and the Pyrenees - A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre • Louisa Stuart Costello
... diminish rapidly with the establishment of the very conditions he labored to bring about. The wit of much that he said must grow dim with the fading remembrance of what provoked it; the sting lie pointless and painless in the dust of those who writhed under it,—so much of the poet's virtue perishing in their death. We can only judge of all this vaguely and for a great part from the outside, for we cannot ...
— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells


Words linked to "Pointless" :   blunt, pointed, worthless


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