释义
[ point -lis ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈpɔɪnt lɪs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective without a point: a pointless pen.
blunt, as an instrument.
without force, meaning, or relevance: a pointless remark.
without a point scored, as in a game: a pointless inning.
Origin of pointless First recorded in 1300–50, pointless is from Middle English point les. See point, -less
SYNONYMS FOR pointless 3 meaningless, unproductive, futile, ineffectual.
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OTHER WORDS FROM pointless point·less·ly, adverb point·less·ness, noun Words nearby pointless pointillistic, pointing, pointing device, point in time, point lace, pointless , point man, point mutation, point of departure, point off, point of fixation
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Example sentences from the Web for pointless “Angry Birds is a small fun game plus a lot of pointless garbage,” Smith tells me.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art | Alec Kubas-Meyer| January 2, 2015| DAILY BEAST
Sweden explores new frontiers in our misguided, foolish, pointless obsession with rating and censoring entertainment.
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The story of Alstory Simon has all the scope and scale, the cruel reversals, and pointless waste of proper tragedy.
Wrongly Imprisoned for 15 Years Thanks to an Innocence Project | Jacob Siegel| November 13, 2014| DAILY BEAST
And that would be a valid, if pointless , thing for me to do.
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The internet was making us realize how pointless it was—or even unwise—to own things.
How Young People Are Destroying Liberty | James Poulos| October 11, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Who could care for the pointless repartees of defunct Grand Dukes, or the meaningless caprices of long-buried Archduchesses?
Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. | Charles James Lever
The Republic and its presidency were the chief pawns in the pointless game of Chinese militarism.
Government in Republican China | Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
His work is full of this sort of eloquent, but, as it appears to our age, pointless declamation.
History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 | Henry Thomas Buckle
Many men have no difficulty in telling stories that are insufferably long, pointless , and uninteresting.
Talks on Talking | Grenville Kleiser
People say of a chapter or of a character: ‘This is very wonderful, if true; but if fiction it is pointless .’
The Life of George Borrow | Herbert Jenkins
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British Dictionary definitions for pointless adjective without a point
without meaning, relevance, or force
sport without a point scored
Derived forms of pointless pointlessly , adverb pointlessness , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to pointless fruitless, worthless, stupid, unproductive, insignificant, irrelevant, ineffectual, futile, trivial, meaningless, inconsequential, ineffective, silly, useless, impotent, unnecessary, powerless, aimless, absurd, inane