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.
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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91. The Commerce Clause was not drawn with a view to having the validity of state laws turn on such pointless distinctions.
92. Speculating like that was always a pointless exercise, but he did it nevertheless.
93. The operation, Back Home, is as straight forward as it is pointless and brutal.
94. What she thought intolerable was that people could hate each other in a silly, pointless place where peace was possible.
95. Perhaps the loss of sunlight was behind a small eruption of quarrels and pointless practical jokes.
96. To operate the program in this manner would therefore be pointless, since the vast majority of results would remain undecided.
97. I found all this odd and annoying and as pointless as any action movie.
98. Vogelstein thought the test would be pointless, but the friend persisted.
99. Instead of allowing this to be a frustrating and pointless event, ask yourself why you created it.
100. The strip search seemed fairly pointless, in as much as they didn't go through my pockets.
101. Thus where the advertisement constitutes a criminal offence(sentencedict.com), it would seem pointless to complain to the Director General.
102. Trent thought of calling at her to relax but he knew that it would be as pointless as trying another smile.
103. Most people think the project is a pointless waste of money.
104. Speculating about their answers is pointless yet it is inevitable when Mr Garel-Jones's resignation letter crosses the boundary of credulity.
105. Generally speaking cannons have such a long range that it is pointless moving them about.
106. To kick them is not only pointless, it destroys what confidence they have.
107. There was some plastic wrought iron creating a pointless division.
108. Bills with bipartisan sponsorship have been introduced in both chambers to repeal this pointless cruelty.
109. Never give your students pointless exercises to do -- always provide interesting, meaningful tasks.
110. I felt strong; there was a point to a life that had seemed pointless.
111. In such a situation, further collection of data may be pointless in the absence of any fresh conceptual insight.
112. It could also be said that without evaluation,[http://sentencedict.com/pointless.html] proper identification of need is pointless!
113. Speculating like this was always a pointless exercise but it occupied a portion of any day.
114. It is pointless to argue about who is more to blame.
115. Unless this could be done, he asserted, its occupation would be pointless.
116. Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. Bill Watterson 
117. Without an audience the performance is pointless.
118. A pause followed this apparently pointless remark.
119. We must put an end to the pointless conflict.
120. It is pointless to discuss the "function of the university" in abstraction from concrete historical circumstances, as it would be a waste of effort to study any other social institution in this way.
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.