Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking meaning; senseless.
- adjective Ineffectual; useless: synonym: futile.
- adjective Having an end that is not sharp or tapered; having no point.
- adjective Failing to score a point.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no point; terminating squarely or in a rounded end.
- Without point or force: as, a pointless joke.
- In botany, same as
muticous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
point or sharptip ; terminatingsquarely or in a rounded end. - adjective Having no
prominent orimportant feature, as of anargument ,discourse , etc. - adjective Having no
purpose ;purposeless ; unable to effect an aim. - adjective mathematics Without
points .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- adjective not having a point especially a sharp point
Etymologies
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Examples
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Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, coined the phrase "pointless and merciless" which is known to almost all Russians in a description of 18th century peasant revolts.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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When is the alteration of a landmark for a new use so extensive as to render the designation pointless?
Roberta Brandes Gratz: When Is a Landmark A Landmark? Roberta Brandes Gratz 2011
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When is the alteration of a landmark for a new use so extensive as to render the designation pointless?
Roberta Brandes Gratz: When Is a Landmark A Landmark? Roberta Brandes Gratz 2011
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When is the alteration of a landmark for a new use so extensive as to render the designation pointless?
Roberta Brandes Gratz: When Is a Landmark A Landmark? Roberta Brandes Gratz 2011
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When is the alteration of a landmark for a new use so extensive as to render the designation pointless?
Roberta Brandes Gratz: When Is a Landmark A Landmark? Roberta Brandes Gratz 2011
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When is the alteration of a landmark for a new use so extensive as to render the designation pointless?
Roberta Brandes Gratz: When Is a Landmark A Landmark? Roberta Brandes Gratz 2011
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Putin is now urging the U.S. to set a date for withdrawing from what he calls a pointless war in Iraq.
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Russian president Vladimir Putin lashing out at the U.S. for conducting what he calls a pointless war in Iraq.
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Anyone who calls the event "pointless" is myopic at best.
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#5: Oklahoma would have to take the cake in pointless alcohol regulation
BrainyBabe commented on the word pointless
One of the cows kept at ''Cold Comfort Farm'', the classic satire by Stella Gibbons. Big Business, the bull, services her and her companions Graceless, Aimless, and Feckless.
December 23, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word pointless
JM reckons that life would be pointless without geometry
July 4, 2011