Synonyms for Pointless

Synonyms for "pointless" (149 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (30)

abrupt absurd aimless arid asinine barren baseless blah blank bloodless bluff blunt blunt-edged blunt-ended blunt-pointed blunted bluntish bootless characterless cold

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colorless crazy dead dismal draggy drearisome dreary

Adjective(1 words)

blunt

Noun(1 words)

boondoggling

Verb(1 words)

driveling

Strong matches (45)

dry dryasdust dull dull-edged dull-pointed dulled dullish dusty edgeless effete elephantine empty etiolated extraneous fade faired fatuous feckless flat fruitless

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futile heavyho humho-hum hollow hopeless idle impotent inadvisable inane ineffective ineffectual inexcitable

Adjective(1 words)

dull

Adjective(11 words)

empty fieldempty potempty voidfutile goalless hitlesshollow feelingidleidle activityidle exerciseinanest

Related words (74)

insignificant insipid jejune leaden lifelesslow spiritedlow-spirited meaninglessno gononsensical obtuseof no usepale pallid pedestrian plodding point poky ponderous preposterous

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Adjective(16 words)

irrelevant meaningless mindless nonsensical otiose purposeless scoreless senseless superfluous trivial unpointed uselessuseless itemvacuous vainest wasted

Adjective(3 words)

issueless obtuse point-free

Noun(1 words)

moot point

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

1 entries

unnecessary

More specific

4 entries

futile taskrambling remarksenseless debatevain effort

Collocations

6 entries

pointless argumentpointless debatepointless discussionpointless exercisepointless questionpointless task

Inflections

2 entries

more pointlessmost pointless

Derivations

2 entries

pointlessly pointlessness

Antonyms

1 entries

pointed

similar

3 entries

blunt unsuccessful worthless

Sample sentences

18 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Life without love is just totally pointless.

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Don't bother your parents with such a pointless thing.

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It's pointless arguing with him.

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I was disgusted with his pointless talk.

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