Purposeless

3 definitions found

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

  Purposeless \Pur"pose*less\, a.
     Having no purpose or result; objectless. --Bp. Hall. --
     {Pur"pose*less*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  purposeless
       adj 1: not evidencing any purpose of goal [ant: {purposeful}]
       2: lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially
          purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: {pointless}, {senseless}]

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

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "purposeless":
     aimless, bootless, casual, causeless, designless, desultory,
     discursive, disorganized, driftless, dysteleological, empty,
     feckless, fustian, garbled, good-for-nothing, haphazard,
     hit-or-miss, importless, impotent, inane, indiscriminate,
     ineffective, ineffectual, inexplicable, insignificant, irregular,
     meaningless, mindless, no go, nonconnotative, nondenotative,
     nonsensical, null, of no use, phatic, pointless, promiscuous,
     purportless, rambling, random, scrambled, senseless, stochastic,
     stray, superfluous, unaccountable, unavailing, undirected,
     unhelpful, unmeaning, unmotivated, unorganized, unplanned,
     unprofitable, unpurposed, unsignificant, useless, vacuous,
     wandering, worthless