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Meanings of purposeless in English
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.
Synonyms
Examples for "wasted"
Examples for "wasted"
1
But each year hundreds of thousands of tonnes are lost or wasted.
2
Time is wasted when both sides in debate employ the same tactics.
3
Every second that passed, every second they wasted, he thought of Lizzie.
4
He speaks the way he designs product: not a single wasted word.
5
That small debacle alone wasted almost three million pounds of taxpayers' money.
1
Ask her a sensible question and you're now guaranteed a senseless answer.
2
Governor Mark Dayton said in a statement: I deplore this senseless violence.
3
I thought this encapsulated the intense pain that such senseless violence causes.
4
Cadorna's judgement on the assaults on Mrzli was succinct: 'heroic but senseless'.
5
Grettir kicked two of them in the ears and they fell senseless.
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.
1
Conclusions: Although highly sensitive, imaging is superfluous if an olive is palpable.
2
And yet the wealth of superfluous loveliness in the world condemns pessimism.
3
Migration of an older sci-fi term for an author's superfluous research material.
4
They're superfluous and leave thousands of uselessly downloaded JPGs in their wake.
5
Such a reservation in favor of his Majesty seemed a superfluous sarcasm.
1
There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
2
Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
3
Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
4
There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
5
We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
Usage of purposeless in English
1
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
2
Haphazardly directed by Hester Chillingworth, the action underlining the text feels purposeless.
3
Once he arose to another of his purposeless circles through the woods.
4
Nor was the recovery we sought merely a purposeless whirring of machinery.
5
What beauty there is is in large part inadvertent, purposeless, and unadvertised.
6
The great house had never seemed so silent, so empty, so purposeless.
7
The isles were burning, sinking, their keel roots writhing in purposeless pain.
8
My life, so far, has been full of change and somewhat purposeless.
9
How does his Japanese nationality elucidate an utterly useless and purposeless murder?
10
Will your soul not lie bereft and purposeless should that day come?
11
Ah, now you come to the object of this apparently purposeless journey.
12
This crazy, purposeless life I had led as Bear would be over.
13
The handwritten message was very brief-onlyseven letters long-andadmittedly looked entirely purposeless.
14
He walked slowly along the endless roads and terraces in a purposeless way.
15
We continued in the same purposeless fashion for a moment or so longer.
16
There he was, purposeless in life and purposeless out of it.
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Purposeless across language varieties
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