Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a pointless manner;
- Example: "he spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pointlessly \Point"less*ly\, adv.
Without point.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pointlessly
adv 1: in a pointless manner; "he spent his life in pointlessly
tiresome drudgery"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "pointlessly":
aimlessly, aridly, barrenly, bloodlessly, bootlessly, colorlessly,
dismally, draggily, drearily, drearisomely, dryly, dully, dustily,
effetely, emptily, fecklessly, fruitlessly, futilely, heavily,
hollowly, inanely, insipidly, jejunely, lifelessly, needlessly,
pallidly, ploddingly, ponderously, purposelessly, slowly,
spiritlessly, stodgily, stuffily, superficially, tastelessly,
tediously, to little purpose, to no purpose, uninterestingly,
unnecessarily, uselessly, vainly, vapidly