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purposeless

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pur·pose·less  (pûrps-ls)
adj.
Lacking a purpose; meaningless or aimless.
purpose·less·ly adv.
purpose·less·ness n.
purposeless [ˈpɜːpəslɪs]
adj
having no fixed plan or intention
purposelessly  adv
purposelessness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.purposeless - not evidencing any purpose or goal
meaningless, nonmeaningful - having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"
purposeful - serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal
2.purposeless - 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"
otiose, superfluous, wasted, pointless, senseless
worthless - lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"
Translations
purposeless [ˈpɜːpəslɪs] ADJ [person's character] → irresoluto; [person's state] → indeciso; [act] → sin propósito, sin objeto, sin finalidad
purposeless
adj → sinnlos; person → ziellos


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A disabled, drunken creature, barely able to preserve her sitting posture by steadying herself with one begrimed hand on the floor, while the other was so purposeless in trying to push away her tangled hair from her face, that it only blinded her the more with the dirt upon it.
Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context
The full recognition of the futility of their infatuation, from a social point of view; its purposeless beginning; its self-bounded outlook; its lack of everything to justify its existence in the eye of civilization (while lacking nothing in the eye of Nature); the one fact that it did exist, ecstasizing them to a killing joy; all this imparted to them a resignation, a dignity, which a practical and sordid expectation of winning him as a husband would have destroyed.
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A tasteless and barbaric display, a vulgar generosity, an ignorant and purposeless prodigality.
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