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1 Purposeless -- rank: 1000

Purposeless definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PUR'POSELESS, a. Having no ... advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: circa 1552 ... plan. Derivatives: purposelessly adv. purposelessness n. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Purposeless Pur"pose*less, a. Having no purpose or result; objectless ... ness, n. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary If an action is purposeless, it does not seem to have a sensible purpose. Time may also be wasted in purposeless meetings... Surely my existence cannot be so purposeless? = senseless, ...

2 Senseless -- rank: 504

... advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted] 4: (of especially persons) lacking sense or ... was some senseless practical joke — A. Conan Doyle > c. meaningless, purposeless < a senseless murder > • senselessly adverb • senselessness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary ... pea-brained, phatic, pin-brained, planless, pointless, promiscuous, psycho, purportless, purposeless, queer, random, reasonless, reckless, ridiculous, sappy, scrambled, screwy, self-annulling ...

3 Pointless -- rank: 435

... advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1582 1 ... no use, pale, pallid, pedestrian, plodding, poky, ponderous, preposterous, purportless, purposeless, ridiculous, rounded, senseless, silly, slow, smoothed, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff ...

4 Superfluous -- rank: 435

... advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted] 2: more than is needed, desired, or ... nonessential, odd, of no use, outstanding, over, pleonastic, pointless, prolix, purposeless, redundant, remaining, remanent, secondary, spare, subsidiary, superabundant, superadded, supererogatory, supernumerary ...

5 Driftless -- rank: 343

... Drift"less, a. Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Aimless, purposeless, without an object.

6 purposelessness -- rank: 343

... ant: purposefulness, sense of purpose] Merriam Webster's noun see purposeless Webster's 1913 Dictionary Purposeless Pur"pose*less, a. Having no purpose or result; objectless ...

7 Inane -- rank: 343

... L. inanis.] Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless. ``Vague and inane instincts.'' --I. Taylor. -- In ... passive, pedestrian, phatic, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, preposterous, pulpy, purportless, purposeless, quietistic, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, raw, relaxed, ridiculous, risible, sapless, sappy, savorless ...

8 objectless -- rank: 343

... 1913 Dictionary Objectless Ob"ject*less, a. Having no object; purposeless. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Aimless, purposeless, wandering, vague, desultory.

9 Wasted -- rank: 343

... advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted] 2: not used to good advantage; "squandered ...

10 otiose -- rank: 343

... advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted] 2: producing no result or effect; "a ...

11 Aimless -- rank: 343

... ADV after v Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Purposeless, objectless, random, chance, without aim or end. Moby Thesaurus amorphous ... null, of no use, orderless, phatic, planless, pointless, promiscuous, purportless, purposeless, rambling, random, roving, scrambled, senseless, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling ...

12 Impotent -- rank: 217

... of no use, overindulgent, overpermissive, permissive, pithless, pointless, pooped, powerless, purposeless, relaxed, remiss, rubbery, sapless, sexless, sine prole, sinewless, slack, slipshod ...

13 haphazard -- rank: 217

... misshapen, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless, potluck, precipitate, promiscuous, promiscuously, purposeless, random, random shot, randomly, rough-and-ready, senseless, shapeless, slipshod ...

14 meaningless -- rank: 217

... use, orderless, paltry, phatic, planless, pointless, preposterous, promiscuous, puny, purportless, purposeless, random, ridiculous, scrambled, secretive, senseless, shapeless, silly, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling ...

15 Mindless -- rank: 217

... it, pandemoniac, pea-brained, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pin-brained, pococurante, promiscuous, purposeless, raging, random, ravening, raving, reasonless, reckless, regardless, respectless, rip-roaring ...