Thesaurus / pointless
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After all, it’s pointless to pick a product if you can’t monetize it.
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We have not had any discussions with the District around mandating vaccines as it would be pointless given that the District would be unable to obtain the supply necessary to vaccinate all staff.
SCHOOLS WANT COVID-19 VACCINES, BUT NOT NECESSARILY MANDATESASHLY MCGLONEJANUARY 27, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
“Politically it would be very difficult to pull off — to the point of it being pointless to attempt,” wrote Brian Kalt, Harold Norris faculty scholar at Michigan State University.
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Weeks of frigid stillness had an unrelenting quality about them — in memory, at least — and spring seemed so far off in early January that it was pointless to think about it.
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In the larger scheme of things, Ruffalo is probably correct that Chris Pratt’s place in the internet Chris discourse is an incredibly pointless thing to care about.
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Democratic senators repeatedly asking Barrett about her views on these questions was a pointless exercise, as a result.
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It was pointless to try to leave a message anyway — his mailbox was full.
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If your website doesn’t have a lot of visitors, too, then creating lead magnets might be pointless.
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Trying to escape from the building was pointless, according to the girls, because it was guarded by men with guns.
The whole procedure—taking the cosmic view—was almost pointless, but it would make the botanist happy, at least.
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WORDS RELATED TO POINTLESS
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- immaterial
- inappreciable
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- infinitesimal
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- lesser
- light
- lightweight
- little
- meager
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- minute
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- unimaginative
- vapid
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- wishy-washy
- abortive
- bootless
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- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
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- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
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- scrap
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- unprofitable
- unpurposed
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- waste
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- extraneous
- foreign
- garbage
- immaterial
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- inapplicable
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- inappropriate
- inappurtenant
- inapropos
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- inconsequent
- inconsequential
- insignificant
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- off the point
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- out of order
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- outside
- pointless
- remote
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- unrelated
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- bad
- beyond recall
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- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- forlorn
- gone
- goner
- helpless
- ill-fated
- impossible
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- pointless
- sad
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- tragic
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- useless
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- woebegone
- worsening
- absurd
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- blank
- doesn't cut it
- double-talk
- doublespeak
- empty
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- fustian
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- good-for-nothing
- hollow
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- inane
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- insignificant
- insubstantial
- nonsensical
- nothing
- nugatory
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- purportless
- purposeless
- senseless
- trifling
- trivial
- unimportant
- unmeaning
- unpurposed
- useless
- vacant
- vague
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- valueless
- vapid
- worthless
- casual
- immaterial
- inappreciable
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- infinitesimal
- irrelevant
- lesser
- light
- lightweight
- little
- meager
- meaningless
- minim
- minimal
- minor
- minuscule
- minute
- negligible
- nondescript
- nonessential
- not worth mentioning
- nugatory
- paltry
- petty
- pointless
- purportless
- scanty
- secondary
- senseless
- small
- trifling
- trivial
- unimportant
- unsubstantial
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.