purposeless

1. 1.

   not evidencing any purpose or goal

   Antonymspurposeful

   Similaradriftdesultory
2. 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”

   Synonymsotiosepointlesssenselesssuperfluouswasted

   Similarworthless

Questions about purposeless

What does purposeless mean?

purposeless means "not evidencing any purpose or goal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in purposeless?

purposeless has 3 syllables: pur-pose-less. The stress falls on "pur". In IPA it is /ˈpɝpəsləs/.

What is another word for purposeless?

Close synonyms include otiose, pointless, senseless, superfluous, wasted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of purposeless?

The recorded antonyms are purposeful.

Is purposeless a common word?

purposeless 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.