Pointless

Definition: Pointless

Pointless

Adjective

1. Not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils are all pointless".

2. Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words".

3. Lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pointless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Pointless

Dullness

Adjective: dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively, logy; unimaginative; insulse; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable".

Imbecility Folly

Foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical; extravagant; (nonsensical); sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless; inexpedient; frivolous; (trivial).

Crosswords: Pointless

Ted, it's pointless to have a triumphant video before we even have decent instruments (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure; writing credit: Chris Matheson; Ed Solomon)

Very well done Louis, short - but pointless (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Nothing but undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscience pond scum, totally convinced of their own superiority as they scurry about in short pointless lives (Men in Black; writing credit: Ed Solomon)

Death is always pointless, that is the point (Gargoyles; writing credit: Heiko Schier)

I say we torture them with plenty of pointless rules and advice (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Times when it was pointless for me to try; (What Kind of Man Would I be?; performing artist: Chicago)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Accidents of Birth: A Tale of Love, Insanity and Other Pointless Arguments with Destiny; The Adventures of Alto Baski (reference)

• Five Thousand Urgently Pointless Distractions (reference)

• Pointless Locker Notes (reference)

• Pointless Pocket Folder (reference)

• Pointless Wireless Notebook: Solid Light Design (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Pointless Walks to Dismal Places (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Human Rights

Russia

Many defendants did not attempt to exercise their right to counsel, believing that such efforts would be pointless. (references)

Political Rights

Tajikistan

Most observers and citizens believed that the large number of appointed and indirectly elected members of the upper house made the elections largely pointless and it was assumed that these elections would result in the distribution of political favors by the ruling party. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "pointless": pointless purposeless. Additional references.

Albanian

i pakuptim (absurd, empty, inane, insignificant, meaningless, senseless, unnamed, vacuous), i kotë (feckless, footling, futile, good for nothing, needless, otiose, unavailing, useless, vain, wanton, worthless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فارغ (barren, blank, empty, flatulent, hollow, idle, inane, leisure, meaningless, senseless, silly, stupid, vacuous, vain, windy), ‏مغفل (dense, dolt, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, fat-witted, fool, foolish, licentious, moronic, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, rubbishy, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, soft-headed, softy, stupid, thick-headed, weak-minded), ‏ليس له مبرر, ‏لا فائدة منه (nonessential, unproductiveness), ‏غير منقط, ‏غير معقول (out of the question, paradoxical, preposterous, unbelievable, unconscionable, unimaginable, unreasonable), ‏غير مبرر (illegitimate), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏عبث (dalliance, fiddlestick, flightiness, flirtation, frivolity, futility, loiter, mess up, moonshine, mosey, palter, piddle, piffling, potter, shallowness, toy, trifle, twiddle), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

напразен (idle, nugatory, unavailing, unprofitable, useless, vain), безсмислен (absurd, aimless, futile, inane, insensate, inutile, meaningless, mindless, needless, nonsense, nonsensical, preposterous, purposeless, senseless, sorry, stupid, tomfool, unmeaning, vacuous, vain), безцелен (aimless, desultory, meaningless, objectless, purposeless), безполезен (baubling, bootless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, inutile, naught, needless, no good, nugatory, otiose, sorry, superfluous, trashy, unavailing, unhelpful, up the spout, useless, vain, void, worthless), без точки. (various references)

Chinese 

� 意义 (insignificant, meaningless). (various references)

Czech

tupý (blunt, brutish, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, empty headed, indocile, mindful, obtuse, stolid, stupid, thickheaded, torpid, vacant, vacuous), nesmyslný (absurd, mindful, nonsensical, preposterous, senseless, unreasonable), neúèinný (effectless, ineffective, inoperative, unavailing), bezvýznamný (inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, null, poor, small time, trifling). (various references)

Finnish

tarkoitukseton (aimless, purposeless, useless, without point). (various references)

French

vain, sans rime ni raison, sans points, sans objectif, inutile, injustifié, idiot, hutte, gratuit, futile. (various references)

German

witzlos (unfunny, unhumorous, witless). (various references)

Greek 

μάταιοσ (feckless, futile, idle, inane, nugatory, otiose, vain), χωρίσ σκορ, άσκοποσ (aimless, feckless, goalless, impractical, inane, needless, objectless, purportless, purposeless), άσκοπος (aimless), αμβλύσ (blunt, dull, flat, obtuse). (various references)

Hebrew 

חסר תכלית (aimless, vacuous). (various references)

Hungarian

eredménytelen (barren, futile, ineffectual, inefficient, of no avail), értelmetlen (beyond reason, devoid of sense, fatuous, it doesn't mean a thing, it's no use, meaningless, mindless, rambling, unintelligible, unmeaning, unreasoned, without rhyme or reason). (various references)

Indonesian

tanpa ujung. (various references)

Italian

vano (coquettish, doorway, empty, fruitless, futile, idle, ineffectual, nugatory, pretty, room, space, unsuccessful, useless, vain), superfluo (needless, superfluous, uncalled for, unnecessary, wasteful), senza senso (meaningless, senselessly), ottuso (blunt, dense, dolt, dull, fatwitted, logy, muffled, obtuse, slow, slow witted, stuffy, thick, witless), nullo (insignificant, invalid, null, of no importance, vain, void), inutile (bootless, good for nothing, idle, in vain, needless, objectless, unavailing, unfit, unnecessary, unsuitable, unusable, useless, vain), gratuito (at no charge, cost free, free, free of charge, freebie, gratis, gratuitous, rent free, toll free). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

無駄骨 (useless, vain efforts, waste of time and effort). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

む� ぼね (useless, vain efforts, waste of time and effort). (various references)

Korean 

무�"�. (various references)

Manx

gyn kione (endless, incessantly, limitless), gyn bree (less, sapless, unexciting, weak, weak as style), gyn baare. (various references)

Pig Latin

ointlesspay.(various references)

Portuguese

sem ponta (unpointed), rombo (diamond, leak, lozenge, obtuse, rhomb, rhombus), insípido (flat, flavorless, flavourless, frigid, insipid, jejune, mawkish, milk-and-water, muzzy, sapless, savorless, savourless, stale, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, washy, watery, wishy-washy), desenxabido (insipid, milk-and-water, mushy, platitudinous, vapid). (various references)

Romanian

inoportun (annoying, ill timed, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inconvenient, inexpedient, inopportune, malapropos, timeless, undue, unseasonable, untimely), fãrã sens (frothy, inane, meaningless, nonsensical, piffling), fãrã poantã. (various references)

Russian 

тупой (blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, dim-witted, doltish, dug, dull, fat-witted, goofy, gormless, heavy, logy, muddle-headed, obtuse, pig-headed, po-faced, puddingy, purblind, slow witted, slow-witted, stolid, stupid, thick, timberheaded, timber-headed, wooden-headed), бессмысленный (blank, crack-brained, driftless, fatuous, headless, kill time, meaningless, mindless, nonsensial, nonsensical, senseless, unmeaning, wanton). (various references)

Scottish

maol (bald, bare, blunt, cape, edgeless, hornless, polled, promontory). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

beznačajan (fiddling, immaterial, insignificant, irrelative, irrelevant, nugatory, peddling, trifling, trivial, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant), bez vrha (topless), besmislen (absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, unmeaning). (various references)

Spanish

sin sentido (dead, meaningless, nonsensical, senseless, unconscious, wanton), sin punta, que carece de sentido, inútil (empty, good for nothing, helpless, naught, needless, no go, of no avail, of no use, profitless, purposeless, unavailing, unfit, unprofitable, unserviceable, unsuccessful, unsuitable, useless, vain, waste, wasted). (various references)

Swedish

uddlös. (various references)

Turkish

puansız, yararsız (bootless, footless, gainless, inexpedient, invalid, it's no use, no good, of no avail, otiose, profitless, unobliging, unserviceable, useless), uçsuz, saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), manâsız (meaningless), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), anlamsız (absurd, barren, blank, dead pan, empty, expressionless, for the birds, frivolous, grotesque, inane, incoherent, inept, inexpressive, insane, insignificant, meaningless, nonsense, nonsensical, of no significance, purposeless, ridiculous, senseless, sodden, unmeaning, unreasonable, vacuous, vain, yeasty), amaçsız (aimless, at an end, objectless, purposeless, vacuous, vagabond, wanton, without cause). (various references)

Turkmen 

manysyz (senseless). (various references)

Ukrainian

тупий (asleep, bat-eyed, blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, doughy, dull, logy, obtuse, opaque, oscitant, slow witted, wooden, wooden-headed), недотепний (botchy, unpointed), безглуздий (absurd, addle-brained, addle-pated, barmy, blind, brainless, brute, crack-brained, crazy, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, impertinent, insane, ludicrous, meaningless, nail biting, nonsensical, preposterous, senseless, wanton, wet). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô nghĩa (amphigouric, meaningless), không nhọn không ý vị, cùn (edgeless, obtuse). (various references)

supervacua, supervacuas, supervacue, supervacuis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pointless": pointlessly, pointlessness, pointlessnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pointless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jointless, paintless, pointelle, poundless, printless. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: epsilons, pistoles, plenists, potlines, toplines.

-2 letters: enlists, entoils, epsilon, insoles, insteps, leptons, lesions, lioness, listens, nosiest, pensils, pinoles, pintles, pintoes, piolets, pistole, pistols, pistons, plenist, pointes, pontils, postins, potline, potsies, silents, sopites, spinels, spinets, spinose, spintos, splents, splines, splints, stepson, stipels, telsons, tinsels, tipless, tonsils, topless, topline.

-3 letters: elints, eloins, enlist, enosis, entoil.

+1 letter: politeness, portliness, simpletons.

+2 letters: captionless, clothespins, penologists, personalist, pointlessly, portionless, septillions, suppletions.

+3 letters: despoilments, impoliteness, kinetoplasts, passionately, personalists, personalties, poeticalness, politenesses, portlinesses, postulancies, silverpoints, siphonostele, speculations, streptolysin, telephonists, toploftiness.

+4 letters: angioplasties, despoliations, neoplasticism, neoplasticist, nephrologists, nonspecialist, personalistic, personalities, phrenologists, pictorialness, pointlessness, polycentrisms, preselections, proselytising, relationships, rhinoplasties, siphonosteles, splenectomies, spondylitises, sportsmanlike, streptolysins.

+5 letters: compatibleness, conceptualises, conceptualisms, conceptualists, dispensational, encapsulations, encyclopedists, expostulations, impolitenesses, incompleteness, isoproterenols, misemployments, neoplasticisms, neoplasticists, nonspecialists, paleobotanists, phenomenalists, planetologists, plastoquinones, poeticalnesses, polyneuritises, pretensionless, profitableness, responsibility, scleroproteins, sexploitations, specialisation, splenectomizes, teleprocessing, toploftinesses.