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English Dictionary: purposeless by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
purposeless
adj
  1. not evidencing any purpose or goal
    Antonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Purposeless \Pur"pose*less\, a.
      Having no purpose or result; objectless. --Bp. Hall. --
      {Pur"pose*less*ness}, n.
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