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Purposeless

adjective

Not evidencing any purpose or goal.

Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being. Synonyms: otiose, pointless, senseless, superfluous, wasted. "Advice is wasted words" , "A pointless remark" , "A life essentially purposeless" , "Senseless violence"

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"Purposeless" Quotes from Famous Books

... keep at heel, and to be permitted to admire. I have seen him sit for half an hour on a doorstep, a canine monument of patience, waiting for her to come out, and I have seen her travel about the Place in apparently purposeless zigzags and circles for the mere pride and vanity of knowing how closely he would follow her least ...

— Schwartz: A History - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray • David Christie Murray

... to specific differentiation; and in each illustration alike we find the result of the operation of known physical causes to be that of selection. If it should be argued in reply that the selection in the one case is obviously purposeless, while in the other it is as obviously purposive, I answer that this is pure assumption. It is perhaps not too much to say that every geological formation on the face of the globe is either wholly or in part due to the selective influence ...

— Thoughts on Religion • George John Romanes

... division of words adopted by Chinese grammarians is that into dead and live words, ss-ts and sing-ts, the former comprising nouns, the latter verbs. The same classes are sometimes called tsing-ts and ho-ts, unmoved and moved words. This shows how purposeless it would be to try to find out whether language began with noun or verb. In the earliest phase of speech the same word was both noun and verb, according to the use that was made of it, and it is so still to a great extent in Chinese. See ...

— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... some, whom a thirst Ardent, unquenchable, fires, Not with the crowd to be spent, Not without aim to go round In an eddy of purposeless dust, Effort unmeaning and vain. Ah yes! some of us strive Not without action to die Fruitless, but something to snatch From dull oblivion, nor all Glut the devouring grave! We, we have chosen our path— Path to a clear-purposed ...

— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... was not thinking about Charlotta this morning, and she felt so strong a distaste for her lonely, purposeless life that she was in no haste to go forth to meet ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

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