pointless

Speech parts

1. pointless - Adjective

2. pointless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

superfluous purposeless needless wasted dull stupid blunt futile senseless obtuse otiose unpointed no-good goner sisyphean

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Antonyms

useful pointed cardinal grand central clef

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Phrases with the word

pointless effort less pointless pointless pursuit turn out to be pointless pointless undertaking pointless talk

Examples

It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion? Gregory Palamas

It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God... if he does not have the works which go with that faith. Gregory Palamas

It is pointless to do with more what can be done with fewer. William of Ockham

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. Steven Weinberg

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. Franz Kafka

It's pointless to fish if there's no bait on the hook. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

pointingly pointingstock pointism pointless effort pointless joke pointless place