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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

having no purpose or meaning;

e.g. It was pointless to work so hard when they were destined to lose the game.

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Similar Words

Empty

Inadmissible

Inane

Meaningless

Nonproductive

Purposeless

Tangential

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Opposite Words

Applicable

Apposite

Apropos

Consequential

Effective

Effectual

Efficacious

Efficient

Efficiently

Eloquent

Eventful

Expressive

Fruitful

Germane

Hyperefficient

Important

Key

Major

Material

Meaningful

Momentous

Operative

Pertinent

Potent

Pregnant

Productive

Relative

Relevant

Revealing

Significant

Substantial

Suggestive

Telling

Ultraefficient

Valid

Weighty

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Related Words

Abortive

Absurd

Aimless

Asinine

Balmy

Barren

Bootless

Brainless

Candle

Counterproductive

Crackpot

Crazy

Cuckoo

Daffy

Daft

Empty

Empty-headed

Extraneous

Fatuous

Feckless

Foolish

Frivolous

Fruitless

Futile

Haphazard

Harebrained

Here

Immaterial

Impertinent

Inapplicable

Inapposite

Inconsequential

Inconsiderable

Ineffective

Ineffectual

Inefficacious

Inefficient

Insane

Insignificant

Irrational

Irrelative

Irrelevant

Jerky

Kooky

Little

Loony

Lunatic

Mad

Mindless

Minor

Negligible

Neither

Nor

Nutty

Preposterous

Purposeless

Sappy

Silly

Simpleminded

Slight

Stupid

There

Tomfool

Trifling

Trivial

Unavailing

Unimportant

Unintelligent

Unproductive

Unprofitable

Unreasonable

Unsuccessful

Unwise

Useless

Vain

Wacky

Weak-minded

Whacky

Witless

Zany

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