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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective pointless has 2 senses
- pointless(a = adj.all) unpointed - not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils are all pointless" Antonym: pointed
- pointless(s = adj.all) otiose, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted - 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" Derived form noun pointlessness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
pointless, a.
Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pointless, adj.
1 without a point.
2 lacking force, purpose, or meaning.
3 (in games) without a point scored.
1 without a point.
2 lacking force, purpose, or meaning.
3 (in games) without a point scored.
Derivative
pointlessly adv. pointlessness n.
THESAURUS
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, worthlessROGET THESAURUS
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Dullness
N dullness, heaviness, flatness, infestivity &c, stupidity want of originality, dearth of ideas, prose, matter of fact, heavy book, conte a dormir debout, platitude, dull, dull as ditch water, unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust, unfunny, unlively, logy, unimaginative, insulse, dry as dust, prosy, prosing, prosaic, matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless, weary stale flat and unprofitable, stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous, melancholic, stolid plodding, boring, tiresome, tedious, davus sum non Aedipus, deadly dull and boring, DDB.Folly
N imbecility folly, want of intelligence &c, want of intellect, shadowness, silliness, foolishness, imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let, stupidity, stolidity, hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness, incompetence, one's weak side, not one's strong point, bias, infatuation, simplicity, puerility, babyhood, dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity, idiocy, idiotism, driveling, folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit, sophistry, giddiness, eccentricity, extravagance, rashness, act of folly, unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning, mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless, halfbaked, having no head, not bright, inapprehensible, weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded, beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed, weak-minded, feeble-minded, dull minded, shallow minded, lack- brained, rattle-brained, rattle headed, half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle- pated, addle-brained, dim-sighted, short-sighted, thick-skulled, weak in the upper story, shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony, dull, dull as a beetle, stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish, asinine, inapt, prosaic, hebetudinous, childish, child-like, infantine, infantile, babyish, babish, puerile, anile, simple, old-womanish, fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling, blatant, babbling, vacant, sottish, bewildered, blockish, unteachable Boeotian, Boeotic, bovine, ungifted, undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical, apish, simious, foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept, maudlin, narrow-minded, bigoted, giddy, rash, eccentric, foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine, ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised, mal entendu, inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical, extravagant, sleeveless, idle, pointless, useless, inexpedient, frivolous, Davus sum non, a fool's bolt is soon shot clitellae bovi sunt im, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, il n' a ni bouche ni eperon, the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound.
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