no-goal

1. 1.

   a nonexistent goal

   “he lived without a reason progressing toward no-goal”

   Broadergoal

Questions about no-goal

What does no-goal mean?

no-goal means "a nonexistent goal".

How many syllables are in no-goal?

no-goal has 3 syllables and divides as no--go-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is no-goal a common word?

no-goal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.