Thesaurus / purposeless
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The key to getting into this state seemed to be the purposeless way in which the day unfolded.
8 ‘INSIGNIFICANT’ CREATURES THAT WILL MAKE YOU DREAM ABOUT THE OCEANCRAIG FOSTER AND ROSS FRYLINCKDECEMBER 1, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThis motion consists almost wholly in apparently purposeless lashing and coiling movements, and continues for many hours.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDHis mind with all its sternness ever tended to clemency, and his constitutional prudence, or measure, forbade purposeless excess.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONI am sure that the English soldiers, thoughtless though they may be, would not stoop to this sort of purposeless outrage.
THE RELIEF OF MAFEKINGFILSON YOUNGA cynical, purposeless, brooding life he must live to his last day: there was no healing in all the world for his despair.
THE CRUISE OF THE SHINING LIGHTNORMAN DUNCANAs he advanced he perceived that the church grew in size, but to him that deceptive harmony seemed purposeless, reprehensible.
THE CONQUEST OF ROMEMATILDE SERAOYou may live such a life, and quote such poetry, but you don't believe that a man should flow on like a purposeless river.
DUFFELSEDWARD EGGLESTONBiscuits employed the time thus gained in a fashion apparently purposeless.
SMITH COLLEGE STORIESJOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAMThe noise, the rush, the purposeless activities of existence ashore weary them.
THE PILLAR OF LIGHTLOUIS TRACYThey themselves are random phenomena, like the waves of the sea, moving backward and forward in purposeless flux.
LANGUAGEEDWARD SAPIRWORDS RELATED TO PURPOSELESS
- absurd
- asinine
- batty
- crazy
- daft
- double talk
- doublespeak
- fatuous
- flaky
- foolish
- idiotic
- illogical
- imbecilic
- inane
- incongruous
- inconsistent
- insignificant
- irrational
- ludicrous
- mad
- mindless
- moronic
- nonsensical
- nutty
- pointless
- purportless
- purposeless
- ridiculous
- simple
- stupid
- trivial
- unimportant
- unintelligent
- unmeaning
- unreasonable
- unsound
- unwise
- wacky
- without rhyme or reason
- abortive
- bootless
- counterproductive
- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
- fruitless
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
- impracticable
- impractical
- incompetent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inept
- inoperative
- inutile
- meaningless
- no good
- nonfunctional
- of no use
- pointless
- profitless
- purposeless
- scrap
- stupid
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfunctional
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- unusuable
- unworkable
- vain
- valueless
- waste
- weak
- worthless
- abortive
- bootless
- counterproductive
- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
- fruitless
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
- impracticable
- impractical
- incompetent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inept
- inoperative
- inutile
- meaningless
- no good
- nonfunctional
- of no use
- pointless
- profitless
- purposeless
- scrap
- stupid
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfunctional
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- unusuable
- unworkable
- vain
- valueless
- waste
- weak
- worthless
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