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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PUR'POSELESS, a. Having no effect. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not evidencing any purpose or goal [ant: purposeful]
2: 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" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1552 having no purpose ; aimless, meaningless • purposelessly adverb • purposelessness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. having no aim or plan. Derivatives: purposelessly adv. purposelessness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Purposeless Pur"pose*less, a. Having no purpose or result; objectless. --Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If an action is purposeless, it does not seem to have a sensible purpose. Time may also be wasted in purposeless meetings... Surely my existence cannot be so purposeless? = senseless, pointless ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Aimless.

Moby Thesaurus

aimless, bootless, casual, causeless, designless, desultory, discursive, disorganized, driftless, dysteleological, empty, feckless, fustian, garbled, good-for-nothing, haphazard, hit-or-miss, importless, impotent, inane, indiscriminate, ineffective, ineffectual, inexplicable, insignificant, irregular, meaningless, mindless, no go, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonsensical, null, of no use, phatic, pointless, promiscuous, purportless, rambling, random, scrambled, senseless, stochastic, stray, superfluous, unaccountable, unavailing, undirected, unhelpful, unmeaning, unmotivated, unorganized, unplanned, unprofitable, unpurposed, unsignificant, useless, vacuous, wandering, worthless