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Synonyms & Antonyms of purposeless
having or seeming to have no purpose or reason
- I have to go to another purposeless meeting tonight.
- purposeless suffering
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“Purposeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purposeless. Accessed 13 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of purposeless was circa 1552
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