This page shows Purposeless in 12 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like purposeful or senseless. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Purposeless in a sentence
Purposeless meaning
Without purpose.
Synonyms of Purposeless
Example sentences (12)
Fun is an experience — short-term, often unexpected, informal, not cerebral and generally purposeless.
It involves excessive and purposeless motor behaviour, as well as extreme mental preoccupation that prevents an intact experience of reality.
They didn’t breed competitive and talented players in Mountain View, so going to a school out there would be purposeless for me,” said Abdelkader.
It's important to live with a sense of intention instead of purposeless habit.
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Scene 3 In the big cities, where men lead boring, purposeless lives, Fatty and Moses spread the gospel of Mahagonny, city of gold, among the disillusioned.
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Yet his efforts are purposeless and his adventures misdirected.
It left Atlanta feeling not just rudderless, but purposeless.
It's purposeless to rank people by their ability to memorize.
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However, Coleridge did believe that a dome could be positive if it was connected to religion, but the Khan's dome was one of immoral pleasure and a purposeless life dominated by sensuality and pleasure.
One of the recurring themes in Antonioni's films is characters who suffer from ennui and whose lives are empty and purposeless aside from the gratification of pleasure or the pursuit of material wealth.
Professor Ademola Popoola from the Department of Surgery at the University of Ilorin (Unilorin) has cautioned that maintaining an erection for more than 30 minutes during sexual intercourse is purposeless, dangerous, and harmful to men.
Common combinations with purposeless
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and purposeless 3×
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