Definition of "pointless" []

• Lacking meaning; senseless. (adjective)
• Ineffectual: pointless attempts to rescue the victims of the raging fire. (adjective)

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• "Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, coined the phrase "pointless and merciless" which is known to almost all Russians in a description of 18th century peasant revolts."
• "When is the alteration of a landmark for a new use so extensive as to render the designation pointless?"
• "Russian president Vladimir Putin lashing out at the U.S. for conducting what he calls a pointless war in Iraq."