purposelessly

1. 1.

   without a clear purpose

   “let's not purposelessly dispense the aid”

Questions about purposelessly

What does purposelessly mean?

purposelessly means "without a clear purpose".

How many syllables are in purposelessly?

purposelessly has 5 syllables and divides as pur-po-se-les-sly 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 purposelessly a common word?

purposelessly 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.