Usually means: Lacking purpose, reason, or sense.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word pointless:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pointless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pointless: Merriam-Webster
  3. pointless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pointless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pointless: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pointless: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pointless, pointless: Wordnik
  8. pointless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pointless: Wiktionary
  10. pointless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pointless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pointless: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pointless, pointless: Dictionary.com
  14. pointless: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pointless (Australian TV series), Pointless (Australian game show), Pointless (TV series), Pointless (game show), Pointless: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pointless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pointless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pointless: Rhymezone
  19. pointless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pointless: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pointless: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pointless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pointless: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. pointless: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pointless: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pointless: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pointlessly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having no point or sharp tip; terminating squarely or in a rounded end.
adjective:  Having no prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.
adjective:  Having no purpose; purposeless; unable to effect an aim.
adjective:  (sports, games) Having no points
adjective:  (mathematics) Without points.
adjective:  (programming, derogatory) Point-free; employing the tacit programming paradigm.

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