purposeless

[US]/ˈpə:pəslis/
[UK]/'pɝpəsləs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. without purpose; meaningless

Example Sentences

purposeless thuggery and vandalism.

She feels that her life is purposeless and empty.

living a purposeless life

Real-world Examples

In this world, a believer like the Stalker is rendered purposeless.

Source: Deep Dive into the Movie World (LSOO)

He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor.

Source: The Great Gatsby (Original Version)

The very attempt to give it purpose is purposeless.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

The most difficult crime to track down, Watson, is the one which is purposeless. Now, this is not purposeless, but who is it that profits by it?

Source: Sherlock Holmes Collection Jeremy Brett Edition

Because without it, as we've seen, that's when we truly fall into despair, that's when survival truly becomes meaningless, purposeless, that's when we truly face the apocalypse.

Source: Deep Dive into the Movie World (LSOO)

If you've ever gone through a period at your job when you've felt fried, drained, paralyzed, purposeless or " just Over It, " then you've probably experienced burnout.

Source: DN.A+ L7

It seemed as though his deep mortification of yesterday, and the stunned purposeless course of the hours afterwards, had cleared away all the mists from his intellect.

Source: South and North (Middle)

Abandoning the inspection of early French art with the same purposeless haste as he had shown in undertaking it, he went further, and lingered about Ferrara, Padua, and Pisa.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 2)

Margaret saw glimpses in him of a slight contempt for his brother and sister-in-law, and for their mode of life, which he seemed to consider as frivolous and purposeless.

Source: The South and the North (Part 2)

When he awoke and was afoot again, he lingered there yet a little longer, watching an eddy that turned and turned purposeless, until the stream absorbed it, and carried it on to the sea.

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Original Version)

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