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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. not having a point especially a sharp point;
- Example: "my pencils are all pointless"
[syn: pointless, unpointed]

2. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
- Example: "otiose lines in a play"
- Example: "advice is wasted words"
- Example: "a pointless remark"
- Example: "a life essentially purposeless"
- Example: "senseless violence"
[syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pointless adj 1: not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils are all pointless" [syn: pointless, unpointed] [ant: pointed] 2: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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