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单词 purposeless
释义
purposeless
adjective
uk
/ˈpɜː.pəs.ləs/us
/ˈpɝː.pəs.ləs/
done without aclearintention:
无目的的，无目标的
a purposelessexistence没有目标的生活
purposelessfighting毫无目的的战斗
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
having no clear plan or purpose
  • aimlessHe was just aimless and confused after being let go from his position.
  • directionlessThe party was plagued with weak and directionless leaders who had no clue how to govern.
  • purposelessThe job left him feeling unfulfiled and purposeless.
  • adriftHis son has just been utterly adrift since leaving university.
  • emptyAfter losing him, I just feel empty inside.
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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

purposelessly
purposelessness
(Definition ofpurposelessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpurposeless

purposeless
Before coma supervenes behaviour may be overactive andpurposeless(delirium).
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One innovation followed another to infinitude, just like mindless andpurposelessemergent products.
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The second assumption is that somewhere out there one can find enough innocent,purposelessmoney, money with no political goals or interests behind it.
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The involuntary,purposeless, non-repetitive movement characteristic of this disorder usually permits a rapid diagnosis.
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The argument that has been more or less accepted is that such questions seek to elicit short, restricted student responses and are thereforepurposelessin the classroom setting.
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Kant claimed that 'the beautiful' is by definition that which is 'purposeless'.
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Sennett's term drift, which he sees as the passive andpurposelessgoing along with the times, also applies after a working life.
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Sydenham's chorea is a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by emotional instability, muscular weakness, andpurposelessbut conscious movements.
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Why should we seek guidance from a purelypurposelessnature in which the name of the game seems to be the dominance of the mightiest, until they, too, must die?
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Is it surprising that we are creating a desperately unhappy,purposeless, valueless underclass when we pay youngsters to do nothing?
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I believe that the men who do not undertake such a feasibility study will be condemned by the nation for subjecting it topurposelessstagnation.
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But most cases of vandalism, such as defacing a wall, wrecking the windows of a bus shelter, or wrecking an occupied council flat, arepurposeless.
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Our great cities are being engulfed in a rising tide of senseless, mindless,purposelessdestruction—which worries a great many people.
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It is quite impossible for us to have apurposelesseconomy.
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I am not convinced that it was entirelypurposeless.
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