purposeless
1. not evidencing any purpose or goal
• Ant:
purposeful
• Similar to:
adrift, afloat, aimless, directionless, planless,
rudderless, undirected, desultory
• See Also:
meaningless, nonmeaningful
• Derivationally related forms:
purposelessness
2. serving no useful purpose;
having no excuse for being
- otiose lines in a play
- advice is wasted words
- a pointless remark
- a life essentially purposeless
- senseless violence
• Syn:
otiose, pointless, senseless, superfluous, wasted
• Similar to:
worthless
• Derivationally related forms:
senselessness (for: senseless), purposelessness, pointlessness (for: pointless)
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