Synonym: otiose, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, unpointed, wasted. Similar words: tactlessness, point, appoint, point out, point to, to the point, in point of, checkpoint. Meaning: ['pɔɪntlɪs] adj. 1. not having a point especially a sharp point 2. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being 3. lacking import.
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61. But restoration ecology is pointless if it merely leads to a relapse into high-risk behavior the moment it scores some initial success.
62. The fact that this was credible only if the youth was retarded made the moral crux which followed rather pointless.
63. High-sounding jargon or pointless platitudes cut little ice when one is alert to the actual message being conveyed.
64. Look, it's pointless us both waiting here -- I'll go and find a phone.
65. Reviews of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals are mostly pointless exercises.
66. Isaac loved the Comet dearly and it would have been pointless to hold this refusal against him.
67. The pace of ideation is for the most part so great that a more formal procedure of idea-handling would be obstructive and pointless.
68. It is clearly pointless and ineffective to qualify community interpreters without the professional cooperation of the services.
69. And it would be rather pointless if I started trying to ape him.
70. Death cannot stop true love. That’s why it’s pointless for me to try to murder all my adoring female fans. Jarod Kintz
71. His instinctive reaction was to duck when he heard the shot, even though he knew it was pointless.
72. Bush has become embroiled in destructive skirmishing at home even as his aides maneuver adroitly to avoid pointless battles abroad.
73. The whole idea that he'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden.
74. Pointless trying to swim against it,(sentencedict.com) but sometimes it just wasn't that easy to see which way the current went.
75. There was murder for gain, and for the most trivial and pointless reasons, often for hardly any reason at all.
76. I am upset that these pointless matters turn our conversations negative.
77. At best it was pointless; at worst it could be really awkward.
78. That it seems pointless not to remain friends after so long, and ask him to have a meal with you.
79. When you watch them you think it almost looks pointless.
80. We are expecting him back on Monday - but if he's only staying for three days it's a pointless exercise.
81. There has been a long and rather pointless debate on this question.
82. Others were so big and free of obstacles that the drill of placing markers seemed pointless.
83. But for anyone who had watched the earlier episodes,[http://sentencedict.com/pointless.html] this was a pointless drama of reiteration.
84. But a sense of apathy arises from the feeling that life is pointless and futile.
85. Was this going to be the ultimate in body language, or a pointless gimmick?
86. The company says it is pointless to compete in the air package holiday market.
87. There is a perfectly logical reason why it seems so pointless and confusing.
88. They had last gone through the pointless business in the visitors' room of a police station.
89. Simon was probably dead, and it was pointless to think he was coming back.
90. We had to change the sheets daily, which always seemed to me to be a pointless exercise.
More similar words: tactlessness, point, appoint, point out, point to, to the point, in point of, checkpoint, tactless, pointillism, point of view, appointment, counterpoint, a case in point, gentleness, tactlessly, less, joint, bless, go into, unless, endless, nonetheless, homeless, reckless, much less, flawless, senseless, more or less, no less than.