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Meanings of pointless in English
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.
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Usage of pointless in English
1
These advances would have been pointless without something much more fundamental: water.
2
Good intentions and bad intentions wash together, pointless over so much time.
3
For a start it's pointless judging attendances this early in the year.
4
Having a border poll in the next five years is simply pointless.
5
The work was laborious and pointless, as far as Aylaen could see.
6
But former CYFS social worker Denis Smith said another inquiry is pointless.
7
They're pointless. They were obscene questions that dealt with personal, private matters.
8
Nothing shows this more than his empty, pointless words on job creation.
9
Again this too seems a pointless objection given his relentlessly high level.
10
My attempts to counter proved pointless after she drained the saucer's power.
11
It seemed pointless to stay home for seven days, for her, anyway.
12
CJ thought about following him, yet he knew it would be pointless.
13
But hiring professional ship-protectors beats the alternative: an endless, pointless military exercise.
14
But it's pointless to deny it: something extraordinary happened during that weekend.
15
It is pointless to wish: if only the Pope had ruled earlier.
16
This conversation is ended, since it was obviously pointless t' begin with.
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Pointless across language varieties
Ireland
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South Africa
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Australia
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