Synonyms for pointless
ˈpɔɪnt lɪspoint·less

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1. pointlessadjective

   Having no purpose; purposeless; unable to effect an aim.

   Since the decision has already been made, further discussion seems pointless.

   Synonyms:
   superfluous, redundant, needless, purposeless

   Antonyms:
   pointful, useful

2. pointlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   dull, blunt, obtuse

3. pointlessadjective

   Antonyms:
   sharp, pointed

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1. pointlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   vague, vapid, aimless, inexpressive, feeble

   Antonyms:
   close, sharp, telling, pregnant, significant, expressive, forcible, epigrammatic

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1. pointless, unpointedadjective

   not having a point especially a sharp point

   "my pencils are all pointless"

   Synonyms:
   purposeless, otiose, wasted, unpointed, senseless, superfluous

   Antonyms:
   acute, acanthous, peaked, fusiform, spindle-shaped, pointed, pyramidic, pyramidal, sharp, acuate, spikelike, needlelike, spinous, valuable, six-pointed, acanthoid, nibbed, cigar-shaped, spiked, pyramidical, barreled, sharpened, bristle-pointed, five-pointed, barrelled

2. otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wastedadjective

   serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

   "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"

   Synonyms:
   spare, gaunt, work-shy, supernumerary, diminished, unpointed, lazy, slothful, emaciated, pinched, surplus, cadaverous, superfluous, faineant, ineffectual, futile, mindless, witless, supererogatory, excess, redundant, nitwitted, wasted, insensible, haggard, senseless, purposeless, unavailing, reasonless, skeletal, atrophied, soft-witted, indolent, otiose, extra, bony, squandered

   Antonyms:
   spindle-shaped, pointed, bristle-pointed, six-pointed, spikelike, spinous, sharp, acanthous, spiked, acanthoid, barrelled, peaked, acute, needlelike, valuable, barreled, fusiform, cigar-shaped, five-pointed, nibbed, pyramidal, sharpened, pyramidic, pyramidical, acuate

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1. redundant

   useless; without meaning, unnecessary; doesn't need to be added

   you've said that already; saying it again is pointless.

   Submitted by rinat on September 3, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "pointless":

   useless, meaningless, senseless, futile, unnecessary, nonsensical, unhelpful, absurd, needless, worthless, superfluous, vain, fruitless, sensu

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1. Matt Zeller:

   I'm now sitting here 20 years removed almost from the very event that propelled me into the military, which was the attacks of September 11, and now I'm wondering if the last 20 years were completely pointless and in vain.

2. Mat Staver:

   You are essentially saying that boys and girls don’t need moms and dads – that moms and dads are irrelevant, gender becomes pointless when government adopts same-sex marriage. It creates a genderless relationship out of a very gender-specific relationship. It says that it doesn’t matter and that two moms or two dads are absolutely equivalent to a mom and a dad.

3. Micky Neron:

   Working all day chasing a salary high enough to cover the rent seemed pointless.

4. Mark Takano:

   This resolution really would present an unduly burdensome and pointless paperwork exercise for VA and will ultimately reveal nothing that is not already known about VA’s wait time calculations.

5. Abdoul Karim Maiga:

   It would be pointless to dismiss workers just to hire them back a year later, with the risk of not getting them all back and with the damage it would do the community, the company will shoulder the losses until the start of the new project.