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HOME | Definition of pointless (POINTLESS, Pointless)


    Pointless \Point"less\, a.
    Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a
    pointless sword; a pointless remark.
    [1913 Webster]

    Syn: Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
    [1913 Webster]

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    pointless
    adj 1: not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils are
    all pointless" [syn: unpointed] [ant: pointed]
    2: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
    "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words" [syn: otiose,
    superfluous, wasted]
    3: lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially
    purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: purposeless, senseless]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    103 Moby Thesaurus words for "pointless":
    abrupt, absurd, aimless, arid, asinine, barren, blah, blank,
    bloodless, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed,
    blunted, bluntish, bootless, characterless, cold, colorless, dead,
    dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull,
    dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, dusty, edgeless, effete,
    elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, faired, fatuous, feckless,
    flat, fruitless, futile, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, impotent, inane,
    ineffective, ineffectual, inexcitable, insignificant, insipid,
    jejune, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, meaningless, no go,
    nonsensical, obtuse, of no use, pale, pallid, pedestrian, plodding,
    poky, ponderous, preposterous, purportless, purposeless,
    ridiculous, rounded, senseless, silly, slow, smoothed, solemn,
    spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, superficial,
    superfluous, tasteless, tedious, unavailing, unedged, unlively,
    unmeaning, unpointed, unproductive, unsharp, unsharpened, useless,
    vain, vapid, wooden, worthless

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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