Pointless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pointless \Point"less\, a.
     Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a
     pointless sword; a pointless remark.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.


          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pointless
       adj 1: not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils are
              all pointless" [syn: {unpointed}] [ant: {pointed}]
       2: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
          "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words" [syn: {otiose},
           {superfluous}, {wasted}]
       3: lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially
          purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: {purposeless}, {senseless}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "pointless":
     abrupt, absurd, aimless, arid, asinine, barren, blah, blank,
     bloodless, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed,
     blunted, bluntish, bootless, characterless, cold, colorless, dead,
     dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull,
     dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, dusty, edgeless, effete,
     elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, faired, fatuous, feckless,
     flat, fruitless, futile, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, impotent, inane,
     ineffective, ineffectual, inexcitable, insignificant, insipid,
     jejune, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, meaningless, no go,
     nonsensical, obtuse, of no use, pale, pallid, pedestrian, plodding,
     poky, ponderous, preposterous, purportless, purposeless,
     ridiculous, rounded, senseless, silly, slow, smoothed, solemn,
     spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, superficial,
     superfluous, tasteless, tedious, unavailing, unedged, unlively,
     unmeaning, unpointed, unproductive, unsharp, unsharpened, useless,
     vain, vapid, wooden, worthless