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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121. I'd say Sino-Japanese War was pointless, and simply a power grab.
122. You can see that the rows I add are fairly pointless: I randomly permute a few possible values for each field, which is just enough to make added rows non-identical to each other.
123. My life is so pointless and empty, utterly self-enclosed and insignificant.
124. One of them, his nephew, told him that it was pointless to wait in Ajdabiya, that he should go to Benghazi to be with his other son, Yousef, who needed him.
125. But by the '60s the ICBM had become routinized as the delivery vehicle for nuclear warheads and everyone realized that super-fast interceptors (and supersonic bombers) were kind of pointless.
126. China knows a rite when it sees one and has become adept at exploiting the EU's passion for summitry,[www.Sentencedict.com] agreeing to discussions but turning them into pointless talking shops.
127. It is perhaps pointless to contemplate what might have been changing.
128. What you do is pointless. You can be replaced from one day to the next by any cretin sitting next to you.
129. An intelligent man considers the prospect of failure, but he doesn't preoccupy himself with pointless worry.
130. He shook hands without rising , and made pointless chitchat.
131. It was a completely pointless thing to do for you.
132. It's all utterly senseless and pointless; a matter of misplaced curiosity.'.
133. This does not mean the campaign against meth has been pointless.
134. "I believe Jody made a point not to argue with me, as she felt that would be pointless when I was hypomanic, " he recalls.
135. One called it a singularly pointless waste of technology destined for techno - oblivion.
136. The conquest of Iwo Jima, shown from an American view in "Flags of our Fathers" and from the Japanese side in "Letters from Iwo Jima", was the most brutal and pointless of the second world war.
137. The bill is at best pointless posturing and at worst dangerous demagoguery.
138. It would be pointless to repeat the details of the most horrendous crimes reported.
139. Given Google's advice on rel "no-follow" it's also pretty pointless.
140. The Boer War, or South African War, of 1899-1902 was pretty pointless.
141. By any sensible measure, this 100 - year struggle has been illiberal, murderous and pointless.
142. Making an engine run faster than 19000 rpm is pointless.
143. Kremlin officials dismiss talk of dead ends as pointless whining and alarmism from liberals.
144. This factor was relevant because without such meaningful information the EIS itself would be pointless.
145. At sixty-six, Teacher Fei had seen enough of the world to consider himself beyond the trap of pointless emotions.
146. It is pointless to hang out washing when it is raining.
147. But am I going to flip out just because some dumb reporter asks a bunch of pointless and infuriating questions?
148. Who wouldn't have preferred this with life so pointless, bitter and hopeless?
149. Calcium Block: It's pointless to put a calcium block cockatoo cages.
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.