as in meaningless
having no meaning
a pointless remark that left everyone scratching their heads in confusion
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Recent Examples of pointless
On Dancing With the Stars, is there anything more pointless than asking a judge for a one-word critique?
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Claire Franken, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2025
Rather, in meditation, the struggling of the mind, the seemingly pointless questing for distraction, and then, the hard road back to centeredness is the point of it all.
—Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
Since the 2024 election, the news had become relentless, daily cruelties laid out so matter-of-factly that creativity seemed frivolous, even pointless.
—Karen Palmer
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
This isn’t to say Hegel thought history was pointless.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025
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Claire Franken, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2025
Rather, in meditation, the struggling of the mind, the seemingly pointless questing for distraction, and then, the hard road back to centeredness is the point of it all.
—Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
Since the 2024 election, the news had become relentless, daily cruelties laid out so matter-of-factly that creativity seemed frivolous, even pointless.
—Karen Palmer
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
This isn’t to say Hegel thought history was pointless.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pointless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pointless
meaningless
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Mainstream rap nowadays is suffocating from meaningless rivalries, subliminal shots for stans to decode and misinterpret, and redundant talk of who’s really in the streets and who’s snitching.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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What affected me most in Lahiri’s story was the sense of time passing, the way our obsessions seem meaningless in the aftermath of tragic events (or, rather, from the larger vantage point of a life).—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Pointless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pointless. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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