Antonyms 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.

   Antonyms:
   pointful, useful

   Synonyms:
   superfluous, redundant, needless, purposeless

2. pointlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   dull, blunt, obtuse

3. pointlessadjective

   Antonyms:
   sharp, pointed

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1. pointlessadjective

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

   Synonyms:
   vague, vapid, aimless, inexpressive, feeble

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1. pointless, unpointedadjective

   not having a point especially a sharp point

   "my pencils are all pointless"

   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

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

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"

   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

   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

How to use pointless in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Tim Clark:

   Clearly there were process and practices, attitudes - DNA if you like - that needed to be resolved from the top down. It is pointless shuffling the deck.

3. Chuck Michel:

   For years San Francisco politicians have inappropriately blamed licensed and inspected gun retailers for violence actually caused by gangs, drugs, and sanctuary city laws, the City has imposed a crushing burden of redundant and pointless regulatory red-tape on firearm retailers, all in an effort to put them out of business. Now they have gotten their wish.

4. Joel Shepherd:

   Fear was sometimes useful, but when the thing that you feared was present in everything around you and prevented you from dealing with your situation practically, it became a pointless distraction

5. Staff John Kelly:

   The Woodward book’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown, i do n’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.

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