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[syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Purposeless \Pur"pose*less\, a.
Having no purpose or result; objectless. --Bp. Hall. --
Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
purposeless
adj 1: not evidencing any purpose or goal [ant: purposeful]
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:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "purposeless":
aimless, bootless, casual, causeless, designless, desultory,
discursive, disorganized, driftless, dysteleological, empty,
feckless, fustian, garbled, good-for-nothing, haphazard,
hit-or-miss, importless, impotent, inane, indiscriminate,
ineffective, ineffectual, inexplicable, insignificant, irregular,
meaningless, mindless, no go, nonconnotative, nondenotative,
nonsensical, null, of no use, phatic, pointless, promiscuous,
purportless, rambling, random, scrambled, senseless, stochastic,
stray, superfluous, unaccountable, unavailing, undirected,
unhelpful, unmeaning, unmotivated, unorganized, unplanned,
unprofitable, unpurposed, unsignificant, useless, vacuous,
wandering, worthless