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单词 purposelessness
释义
purposelesspur‧pose‧less /ˈpɜːpəsləs $ ˈpɜːr-/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The violence is purposeless and impulsive.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Darwinist dogma that asserts life began and developed by a sequence of purposeless random accidents remains a metaphysical belief.
  • He felt as though he lived in a purposeless world.
  • It is purposeless to try to summarise what was said.
  • It is certainly true that more roses are ruined by incorrect or purposeless cutting than any other cause.
  • The chief effect is to highlight the horror of the desolate and pre-human world of purposeless suffering.
  • When we lay together at night, there was something purposeless in our pleasure.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounpurposepurposefulnesspurposelessnessadverbpurposefullypurposelesslypurposelyadjectivepurposefulpurposeless
not having a clear aim or purpose OPP  purposeful:  hours of purposeless activitypurposelessly adverbpurposelessness noun [uncountable]
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