POINTLESSNESS Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

pointlessness

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Recent Examples of pointlessness Emotions of shame and anger mixed with the sheer pointlessness of it all. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026 The battle that follows — a muddy and mean scrum — is even more ghastly, partly for its utter pointlessness. — ABC News, 17 June 2026 Such expeditions can turn into a Buddhistic exercise in enlightened pointlessness. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025

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Noun

Arendt, evidently depressed and convinced of life’s meaninglessness, found his teaching electrifying.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Like emo in the early to mid ’00s, the genre marker has been muddied to the point of near meaninglessness.

— Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of meaninglessness

Noun

The Dolphins and their fans have been wandering a quarter century in football abyss, in national irrelevance, and wonder how the franchise of the Perfect Season, of Don Shula and Dan Marino, could get this way.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026
Antonia is a doctor who is sidelined to the point of irrelevance in the film.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of irrelevance

Noun

Over time, as the human side of the evolving machine-flesh dyad matured, WHEEP-3 shifted its attention to the silicon partner, offering trenchant critiques of the inadequacies of machine learning.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
The result can be inspiration for some but inadequacy for others.

— Sindhu Bhaskar, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of inadequacy

Noun

But for less intimate relationships, the perception of wrongness was the key predictor of negative feelings and avoidance.

— Andras Molnar, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
Hidden, almost, in the center of the exhibition are a few of Mendieta’s early paintings from the late 1960s and early 1970s, which have a jarring feeling of wrongness about them.

— Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026

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