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单词 pointless
释义
pointless
adjective
uk
/ˈpɔɪnt.ləs/us
/ˈpɔɪnt.ləs/
C1
Something that is pointless has nopurpose, and it is awasteoftimedoing it:
无意义的，空洞的
This is a pointlessexercise.这个练习毫无意义。
Itseemedpointlesstocontinue.继续下去看来没有意义。
informalIt's pointless arguingwith him.和他争辩是白费口舌。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
useless
  • uselessWe have cleared out carloads of useless junk.
  • no useMoney is no use if it's just sitting there.
  • serve no purposeSuch warnings serve no purpose other than to scare the public.
  • pointlessShe sees cleaning as a pointless exercise since everything is going to get dirty again.
  • worthlessThe majority of objects in the exhibition are worthless junk.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
  • a mug's gameidiom
  • adrift
  • aimless
  • aimlessly
  • aimlessness
  • airy-fairy
  • frivolous
  • frivolousness
  • fruitless
  • fruitlessly
  • fruitlessness
  • moon around
  • motiveless
  • negate
  • negation
  • unfruitful
  • unrealistic
  • unrealistically
  • untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
  • unviability
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Related words

pointlessly
pointlessness
(Definition ofpointlessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

pointless| American Dictionary

pointless
adjective
us
/ˈpɔɪnt·ləs/
having nousefulpurpose:
a pointlessargument
Thetripseemedpointless.
(Definition ofpointlessfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpointless

pointless
Investigators can safely assume that players' efforts to influence their opponents arepointless.
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Otherwise, including a nonlinear time trend in the cointegrating relations seems ratherpointless.
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This was a dispute that was as bitter as it waspointless, because ultimately insoluble.
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Those who suffered but saw the war aspointlesswere subject to considerable psychic dissonance, and were prone to later psychic breakdown.
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The old divisions between denominations seemedpointlessto many.
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If, then, nature makes nothing incomplete orpointless, it is necessar y that nature has made them all for the sake of men.
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At a methodological level one gets the impression that there's been a huge amount of ratherpointlesswork here.
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It ispointlessto continue these accusations and counter-accusations.
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Image-enhancement activities arepointlessif they are not prominently conveyed to the voters.
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Others suggested that strict management of an older patient's lifestyle waspointless.
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In itself, the physicists' reaction does not mean that looking for a postmodern physics ispointlessor ill-conceived.
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Schlageter's life had thus beenpointless, his death in vain.
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I also think that it ispointlessto have endnotes in a book this long.
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He thought itpointlessto do so unless one had some idea as to how to proceed.
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This often renders 'planning' apointlessexercise, but places a high value on 'perfor mance', or -exibility and improvization.
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