purposeless

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If I stop by the drugstore or the post office on my usual noon walk, does that change it from purposeless to purposeful?

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Quick take

not evidencing any purpose or goal

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of purposeless gathered in one view.

adjective

not evidencing any purpose or goal

adjective

serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for purposeless.

adjective

not evidencing any purpose or goal

adjective

serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"

See also: otiose, pointless, senseless, superfluous, wasted

Example sentences

If I stop by the drugstore or the post office on my usual noon walk, does that change it from purposeless to purposeful?

As some one who currently works from home, a "purposeless" walk is how I start and end my work day – I think of it as my "commute".

Now if purposeless lifestyle journalism would race it to the grave...The whole question of purpose is a bit confused.

Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel its worth living?Kubrick: Yes, for those who manage somehow to cope with our mortality.

It seems like a full half of the scoring space is essentially purposeless when viewed from the perspective of recommending games to people who might want to buy them.

The rank wind of my farts produces more inspired thought than this ridiculously short, purposeless, rambling piece of pseudo-anarchistic crap.

To me, the connection between "purposeless walking" and creativity is beyond obvious.

If you have to defend yourself against heavy incoming meeting emails, and if those meetings are purposeless, meandering blancmanges, then WFH is really a way to evade the meetings.

I remember, like the author, being extremely impatient with family life and social activities because I would rather be spending time building something, learning something new. Normal human activities seemed boring and purposeless.

Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove their need for the power process or to make them sublimate their drive for power into some harmless hobby.

For artists and designers it's also important to see reviews by actual artists and designers rather than people who may not have been compensated for their reviews and only review published specifications and an hour of light, purposeless mixed use.

Although people probably walk less now because we have more convenient modes of transportation, is the argument that a greater percentage of walks were purposeless in the past?Treating "Great White Men" of the past as exemplars of how life used to be is ridiculous.