Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking a purpose; meaningless or aimless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking purpose or use; without practical advantage; aimless; useless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no purpose or result; objectless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
purpose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- adjective not evidencing any purpose or goal
Etymologies
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Examples
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And they often "ride with passengers on what we call 'purposeless trips,'" McNaull says.
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And they often "ride with passengers on what we call 'purposeless trips,'" McNaull says.
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By the time Weinberg unveiled his gloomy view, the notion of a purposeless, meaningless universe was already on a roll in science.
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By the time Weinberg unveiled his gloomy view, the notion of a purposeless, meaningless universe was already on a roll in science.
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'Rational ignorance' and psychological bias are perfectly compatible; it has to be understood that rationality itself is 'purposeless', it makes no commands, demands nothing.
Why Are the Agreeable Anti-Market?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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According to Miller and Levine, the textbook authors, Darwin knew that believing in materialism, the "purposeless" and "heartless" view that "matter is the stuff of all existence and that all mental and spiritual phenomena are its by-products", was required to accept his theory.
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I suppose that, as far as Tanenhaus and company are concerned, Queenan is the kind of purposeless and prehistoric piss-and-vinegar that apparently represents the intellectual discourse of our time.
Joe Queenan: Incurious Harbinger of Death : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007
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Life is now a matter of selling oneself to slave-work, building roads or labouring in quarries or mines or on the railways, purposeless, meaningless, really slave-work, each integer doing his mere labour, and all for no purpose, except to have money, and to get away from the old system.
Twilight in Italy 2003
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New vistas of life open up in the midst of this vast, overgrown, "purposeless," "dingy" city.
Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
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Life is now a matter of selling oneself to slave-work, building roads or labouring in quarries or mines or on the railways, purposeless, meaningless, really slave-work, each integer doing his mere labour, and all for no purpose, except to have money, and to get away from the old system.
Twilight in Italy 1907
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