[syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pointless
adj 1: not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils
are all pointless" [syn: pointless, unpointed] [ant:
pointed]
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,
purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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