Definition of Pointlessly

1. Adverb. In a pointless manner. "He spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery"

Partainyms: Pointless

Definition of Pointlessly

1. adv. Without point.

Definition of Pointlessly

1. Adverb. Without point; in a pointless manner; so as to lack purpose or importance. ¹

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Definition of Pointlessly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pointlessly

pointillist
pointillistic
pointillistically
pointillists
pointillé
pointillés
pointiness
pointing
pointing-trowel
pointing-trowels
pointing out
pointing the bone
pointing trowel
pointings
pointless
pointlessly (current term)
pointlessness
pointlessnesses
pointlet
pointleted
pointlets
pointlike
pointling
pointlings
pointman
pointmen
pointrel
pointrels
points

Literary usage of Pointlessly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"... the notions are commonplace and the arguments unsound than because, as might happen in England, ideas of some value are tediously and pointlessly put. ..."

2. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"Milton, in the worst style of controversy, fell, for lack of argument, upon the title of his adversary's satires, which Hall had rather pointlessly called ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1890)
""No, I have no husband," echoed Luba, rather pointlessly. "And you are his friend, and have his happiness at heart 1 You said so before. ..."

4. The Court Theatre 1904-1907: A Commentary and Criticism by Desmond MacCarthy (1907)
"His figures are often exaggerated ; but in nine instances out of ten they are saved from being pointlessly fantastic by the fact that they are closely ..."

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