having no purpose; not worth doing We searched until we knew it would be pointless to continue. Trying to foresee the future is a pointless exercise.
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adverb He argued pointlessly with his parents.
noun [uncountable] the pointlessness of warSee pointless in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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