Term Gallery logo

Meanings of pointlessness in English

Total lack of meaning or ideas.

Usage of pointlessness in English
1
And that's where the pointlessness of this accessory starts to become clear.
Wired
2
What is striking about his move to City is its sheer pointlessness.
The Guardian
3
The Absurdity he identified is the ultimate pointlessness of life in general.
The Guardian
4
This series finale is right up there with Seinfeld's for pointlessness.
News.com.au
5
On the third attempt I am overwhelmed by the pointlessness of the exercise.
Number9Dream
6
This has the usual 3-D buildings, the pointlessness-and-click interface, the works.
Wired
7
Again, I guess my complaint is the pointlessness of this comparison.
Wired
8
First, climbers like to revel in the pointlessness of our endeavor.
Climbing Magazine
9
The coming crisis brings an eve-of-battle thrill to those who invented all this pointlessness.
The Guardian
10
If anything, it highlights the pointlessness of individual hunts in search of historical absolution.
The Irish Times
11
At this level it does seem to be a rather circular piece of pointlessness.
The Guardian
12
I struggled, despairing about the powerlessness, and perhaps pointlessness, of an op-ed or essay.
The Guardian
13
But this pointlessness is exactly the point: Political correctness makes debate irrelevant and frequently impossible.
NY Magazine
14
But what happened to Rob Elliot on Tuesday night demonstrates the pointlessness of premature prognostication.
The Irish Times
15
Derided for its pointlessness upon launch, it is actually packed wall to wall with comfort food.
The Guardian
16
I couldn't help feeling a kind of helpless and dispiriting pointlessness in what I was doing.
A walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian tr...
About this term
More collocations
Pointlessness through the time