purposeless

Speech parts

1. purposeless - Adjective

2. purposeless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having no purpose or result; objectless.

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Examples

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. George Gaylord Simpson

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct. Mark Twain

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. Arthur Conan Doyle

Everything purposeful is meaningless, and everything meaningful is purposeless. Ludwig Klages

It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle. David Levithan

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world. Alan Watts

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