pointless
[adjective]
Synonyms: senseless, absurd, aimless, fruitless, futile, inane, irrelevant, meaningless, silly, stupid, useless

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English Thesaurus: pointless, futile, useless, hopeless, be a waste of time/money/effort, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

point‧less /ˈpɔɪntləs/ adjective
[Word Family: noun: point, pointer, pointlessness; adjective: pointed, pointy, pointless; adverb: pointlessly, pointedly; verb: point]
worthless or not likely to have any useful result:
Life just seemed pointless to me.
a pointless quarrel
it is pointless doing something
It’s pointless telling her to clean her room – she’ll never do it.
it is pointless to do something
I think it would be pointless to discuss this issue again.
—pointlessly adverb
—pointlessness noun [uncountable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

pointless
adj.
VERBS be, seem | become | consider sth, think sth She considered it pointless to plan in too much detail.
ADV. absolutely, quite, totally, utterly | a bit, fairly, rather, somewhat | apparently

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

pointless not likely to have a useful result:
She knew it would be pointless to argue with him.
The meeting was a pointless exercise.
futile completely pointless because there is no chance at all of being successful:
She shut the door in a futile attempt to keep the smell out.
Their efforts proved futile (=did not have any success).
useless not useful or effective in any way:
I knew it was useless to try to explain to him what had happened.
The map we had been given was useless.
hopeless having no hope of being successful or effective:
It was a hopeless task.
He was jumping up and down in a hopeless attempt to keep warm.
be a waste of time/money/effort to be not worth the time, money etc that you use because you do not achieve anything:
The whole process was a complete waste of time.
The scheme was a waste of money.

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