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going nowhere
adjective as in pointless
Strongest matches
adjective as in vain
Weak matches
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- delusory
- empty
- hollow
- idle
- in vicious circle
- inefficacious
- insignificant
- misleading
- no-win
- not a prayer
- nugatory
- on a treadmill
- otiose
- paltry
- pointless
- profitless
- puny
- senseless
- shuck
- slight
- sterile
- time-wasting
- trifling
- unavailing
- unimportant
- unnotable
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- valueless
- void
- worthless
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Example Sentences
No, party officials, said: Christie is going nowhere on the national level.
The kid had been just starting out and now was going nowhere.
The case seemed to be going nowhere until Thursday, when the police released information about the attempted abduction on May 28.
Then again, before hooking up with Johnny at that hotel bar, Hunter was basically nobody going nowhere.
He was supposed to be working on a book about tennis, but it was going nowhere.
The two would simply cancel each other out and we'd waste a lot of power going nowhere.
It floated eerily in no orbit around anything, going nowhere; doing nothing.
The Kaffir explained that he was going nowhere in particular.
Grandpa Seeley was going nowhere, not ever again in his entire life.
At Mandas one walks down the road like a pig that is going nowhere.
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On this page you'll find 102 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to going nowhere, such as: absurd, aimless, fruitless, futile, impotent, and inconsequential.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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