pointless
IPA: pˈɔɪntɫʌs
adjective
- Having no point or sharp tip; terminating squarely or in a rounded end.
- Having no prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.
- Having no purpose; purposeless; unable to effect an aim.
- (sports, games) Having no points
- (mathematics) Without points.
- (programming, derogatory) Point-free; employing the tacit programming paradigm.
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Examples of "pointless" in Sentences
- It's unsubstantial and pointless.
- The plan is pointless and futile.
- They are pointless and meddlesome.
- It is totally pointless and gawky.
- It just creates pointless prolixity.
- The verbiage is unhelpful and pointless.
- Fix the search and undo the pointless changes.
- The above is classified as idiotic and pointless.
- In a nutshell, I think the apposition is pointless.
- I think the TOC is pointless, and untidy in itself.
- Anyone who calls the event "pointless" is myopic at best.
- #5: Oklahoma would have to take the cake in pointless alcohol regulation
- Putin is now urging the U.S. to set a date for withdrawing from what he calls a pointless war in Iraq.
- When is the alteration of a landmark for a new use so extensive as to render the designation pointless?
- Russian president Vladimir Putin lashing out at the U.S. for conducting what he calls a pointless war in Iraq.
- 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.