pointlessness

pointless | American Dictionary

pointless
adjective
us/ˈpɔɪnt·ləs/
having no useful purpose:
a pointless argument
The trip seemed pointless.

Examples of pointless

pointless
Investigators can safely assume that players' efforts to influence their opponents are pointless.
Otherwise, including a nonlinear time trend in the cointegrating relations seems rather pointless.
This was a dispute that was as bitter as it was pointless, because ultimately insoluble.
Those who suffered but saw the war as pointless were subject to considerable psychic dissonance, and were prone to later psychic breakdown.
The old divisions between denominations seemed pointless to many.
If, then, nature makes nothing incomplete or pointless, it is necessar y that nature has made them all for the sake of men.
At a methodological level one gets the impression that there's been a huge amount of rather pointless work here.
It is pointless to continue these accusations and counter-accusations.
Image-enhancement activities are pointless if they are not prominently conveyed to the voters.
Others suggested that strict management of an older patient's lifestyle was pointless.
In itself, the physicists' reaction does not mean that looking for a postmodern physics is pointless or ill-conceived.
Schlageter's life had thus been pointless, his death in vain.
I also think that it is pointless to have endnotes in a book this long.
He thought it pointless to do so unless one had some idea as to how to proceed.
This often renders 'planning' a pointless exercise, but places a high value on 'perfor mance', or -exibility and improvization.
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