Usually means: Without purpose, reason, or justification.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. pointlessly: Merriam-Webster
  2. pointlessly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pointlessly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pointlessly: Vocabulary.com
  5. pointlessly: Wordnik
  6. pointlessly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pointlessly: Wiktionary
  8. Pointlessly, pointlessly: Dictionary.com
  9. Pointlessly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. pointlessly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. pointlessly: Rhymezone
  12. Pointlessly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. pointlessly: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pointlessly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. pointlessly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. pointlessly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

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▸ adverb:  Without point; in a pointless manner; so as to lack purpose or importance.

Similar:
purposelessly, for nothing, aimlessly, objectlessly, unmeaningly, needlessly, plotlessly, resultlessly, vacuously, placelessly, more...

Opposite:
purposefully, intentionally, deliberately

Types:
needlessly, unnecessarily, senselessly, no purpose, for no reason, without cause, more...

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Similar:
purposelessly, for nothing, aimlessly, objectlessly, unmeaningly, needlessly, plotlessly, resultlessly, vacuously, placelessly, more...

Opposite:
purposefully, intentionally, deliberately

Types:
needlessly, unnecessarily, senselessly, no purpose, for no reason, without cause, more...



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