🚫 No purpose ✏️ No sharp tip

pointless

1 2.8

Not having a sharp tip like a knife or pencil

adjective
/ˈpɔɪntləs/

: romo

Trying to sew with a needle that has a pointless tip makes the task very frustrating.

Examples

The knife was so dull that it felt completely pointless to use.
Blaming people for being afraid is pointless; the question is, are you going to behave courteously or not?

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That gun is pointless.

The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
He feels an unloaded gun is pointless.

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Jellyfish and tofu are pointless to my palate.

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I often check Find My iPhone on iCloud.com; however, the radius where it shows on the map is something so big in a crowded area or inside a shopping center, it's simply pointless.

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iWork is practically Office with leather and other pointless (but fun) textures.

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A more expensive press may have small, pointless creature comforts and silly features that the HF doesn't, but they both drill holes equally as well.

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I found the pointless discussions about the weather uninteresting during the meeting.

Synonyms

unpointed

vspointless

5.8

Does not have a sharp end

is the same meaning but uses the phrasing lacking a sharp tip

tipless

vspointless

5.0

Without a pointed end so you can use your fingers

is about lacking any point generally rather than a removed or absent end

Antonyms

sharp

301 1.0

A thing with an edge that can cut or pierce

pointed

1 1.8

Ending in a small sharp tip

How Sharp

razor-sharp

8 4.1

sharp

301 1.0

pointless

1 2.8

dull

17 1.0

flat

797 1.0

Surface Forms

pointless positive

Morphology

pointless = point (transparent) = point + less

Built by adding the productive suffix '-less' to 'point' in its physical sense 'sharp end', yielding 'lacking a point'; straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Pointless is made from point and -less, and point can mean a 'sharp tip' like on a pencil or knife. So, pointless describes something 'without a point' that cannot poke or cut.