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Definition of Purposeless
1. Adjective. Not evidencing any purpose or goal.
Similar to: Adrift, Afloat, Aimless, Directionless, Planless, Rudderless, Undirected, Desultory
Antonyms: Purposeful
Derivative terms: Purposelessness
2. Adjective. Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being. "Senseless violence"
Similar to: Worthless
Derivative terms: Pointlessness, Purposelessness, Senselessness
Definition of Purposeless
1. a. Having no purpose or result; objectless.
Definition of Purposeless
1. Adjective. Without purpose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Purposeless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purposeless
Literary usage of Purposeless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bergson and Personal Realism by Ralph Tyler Flewelling (1920)
"THE VALUE AND POSSIBILITY OF A purposeless FREEDOM If pure duration is necessary to
... A purposeless ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"(2) Natural selection may fix on purposeless habits which chance to be profitable,
and convert them into instincts without intelligence being ever concerned ..."
3. The Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides by Moses Maimonides, Michael Friedländer (1885)
"[MAN'S]3 actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are
either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.1 An action is vain if ..."
4. Everyday Ethics by Ella Lyman Cabot (1906)
"It is hard, however, to find examples of absolutely purposeless things, and the
reason for this is interesting. It is because purpose is the key which man ..."
5. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K. G., and His Times by Alexander Charles Ewald (1882)
"II. of its predecessors, this session has been marked by feebleness ; that it
has been aimless and purposeless, and barren of all benefit to the country and ..."
6. Disraeli and His Day by William Fraser (1891)
"... that Hughenden, being situated on a steep slope, afforded Disraeli no means
of taking that most pernicious exercise, a purposeless walk. ..."
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