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say it: POYNT-luhs
pointless is an adjective meaning "not having a point especially a sharp point". It is pronounced /ˈpɔɪntləs/ — POYNT-luhs. It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pointless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.