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. 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.

2. Li Xinchuang:

   It is a totally pointless complaint from the U.S. and it's biased against China, china's steel industry is market-based and Chinese steel products have good quality, low price and good service. The complaint on government subsidies is also crap. It's just we have a different system and we charge the 17 percent value-added tax and then return a portion of it.

3. Anna Macdonald:

   Some governments may now choose to not make these reports public, which makes it a bit pointless.

4. Matthias Rogg:

   It's the point from which everything is measured. It fed the myth that Dresden was the innocent victim of a pointless war and hid the fact that it was a center of Nazism and a significant hub for making armaments, and while the bombing of Dresden was dreadful, it's crucial that without Sept. 1 1939, without Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, London there wouldn't have been Dresden.

5. Olga Karlova:

   He decided not to waste time, he doesnt think it will achieve anything. Its pointless, he said that hed been thinking about it,andas there are some talks about his return home, he doesnt want to lose a minute.