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# pointless

«pointless» in Mova's school dictionary: **having no purpose or use** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (pointless); adverb pointlessly; noun pointlessness

### meaning for a pupil

1) Pointless means having no purpose or use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pointless/#m1)

2) In a game or test, pointless can mean scoring no points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pointless/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

People say «It's pointless» when an action will not help or change anything. In stories it can show that a character has given up or that a fight is senseless. In maths and games, a pointless team has 0 points. Phrases: it's pointless to …, a pointless argument, completely pointless.

### examples

- It's pointless arguing with my brother; he never listens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pointless/#x1)
- Shouting at the rain is pointless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pointless/#x2)
- The meeting felt long and pointless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pointless/#x3)
- Our team was pointless after the first round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pointless/#x4)
- It's pointless to water the garden when it's raining. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pointless/#x5)
- Without a plan, the trip seemed pointless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pointless/#x6)

### note

-less means «without», so pointless = without a point (purpose). In a scoring game «pointless» means 0 points. «Pointless» is about having no purpose; do not confuse it with «blunt» (a pencil without a sharp point).

### In the corpora

- [Reading-log comments are meant to show what you thought, so copied ones are pointless.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/13/)
- [«Everyone knows homework is pointless» sounds like a fact, but it is an opinion dressed up as one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pointless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pointless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.