purposelessly
adverb
uk /ˈpɜː.pəs.ləs.li/ us /ˈpɝː.pəs.ləs.li/
in a way that lacks a clear intention: 无目的地;目地不明地;无意义地
I walked purposelessly around the city.我漫无目的地在城里游荡。
The sculptors’ shapes hovered weightlessly and purposelessly.雕塑家创作的那些块状物悬吊在空中轻盈地任意浮动着。
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purposeless
Children wander purposelessly around.
The music is all tinny beats that thud purposelessly.
People waste time scrolling purposelessly through their phones.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
adrift
aimless
aimlessly
aimlessness
airy-fairy
fruitless
fruitlessly
fruitlessness
futile
futilely
negate
negation
no goodidiom
non-viable
nugatory
unrealistic
unrealistically
unseriousness
until you are blue in the faceidiom
unviability
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