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" The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."
Arthur Conan Doyle

Meaning of "purposeless" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PURPOSELESS

ˈpɜːpəslɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PURPOSELESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Purposeless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PURPOSELESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of purposeless in the English dictionary

The definition of purposeless in the dictionary is having no fixed plan or intention.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PURPOSELESS

baseless · blissless · ceaseless · classless · coxless · defenseless · faceless · forceless · gasless · graceless · horseless · houseless · lossless · massless · priceless · senseless · sexless · stressless · useless · voiceless

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PURPOSELESS

purply · purport · purported · purportedly · purportless · purpose · purpose-built · purposeful · purposefully · purposefulness · purposelessly · purposelessness · purposely · purposive · purposively · purposiveness · purpresture · purpura · purpure · purpureal

WORDS THAT END LIKE PURPOSELESS

ageless · boneless · bottomless · careless · changeless · clueless · frameless · homeless · hopeless · lifeless · loveless · nameless · nevertheless · nonetheless · shameless · sleeveless · tasteless · timeless · tireless · tubeless · wireless

Synonyms and antonyms of purposeless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PURPOSELESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «purposeless» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «purposeless» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PURPOSELESS

Find out the translation of purposeless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of purposeless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «purposeless» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

漫无目的
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

sin propósito
570 millions of speakers
en

English

purposeless
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

बेमतलब
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بلا هدف
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

бесцельным
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

purposeless
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

উদ্দেশ্যহীন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

sans but
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tanpa tujuan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

zwecklos
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

目的のない
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

목적이
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Tanpa tujuan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không có ý định
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

குறிக்கோளற்ற
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

निरुपयोगी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

amaçsız
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

senza scopo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

bezcelowe
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

безцільним
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

fără scop
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άσκοπος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doellose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

meningslös
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

purpose
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about purposeless

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2 QUOTES WITH «PURPOSELESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word purposeless.
1
Arthur Conan Doyle
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
2
George Gaylord Simpson
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURPOSELESS»

Discover the use of purposeless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to purposeless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation
The purposeful and the purposeless The last distinction is sometimes glossed in terms of another, with which, however, it is not identical. Some attitudes approach (or retreat from) their object with an 'end in view'; some do not. To the first kind ...
Roger Scruton, 2012
2
Heroic Egoism: To Make the Most of Yourself and Your Life
There are many who die spiritual deaths long before their bodies expire; they are the purposeless, those who not moving for anything in life have stilled the life force. The purposeless are the living dead. The living dead walk thru this world the ...
Darin Penzera, 2012
3
The Tao of Philosophy
You do not have to do anything but it is a great idea, and it is a great experience if you can learn what the Chinese call "purposeless- ness." They think that nature is quite purposeless. However, when we say something is purposeless, it is a ...
Alan Watts, 1999
4
The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in ...
Worship is, in an odd way, purposeless. The incomprehensibility of the liturgy is compounded by a purpose-driven culture fixated on outcomes and results, in which worship is really, as Marva Dawn so provocatively claims, “a royal 'waste' of ...
Paul G. Doerksen, Karl Koop, 2011
5
Readings in Philosophy of Religion: Ancient to Contemporary
More recently, the physicist Paul Davies, in his book, The Mind of God (1992: 232 ), opines that the reflective power of human minds can be “no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless purposeless forces.” This is a most revealing way of  ...
Linda Zagzebski, Timothy D. Miller, Timothy Miller, 2009
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Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals
Playing and sports have often been regarded – indeed, defined – as purposeless , expressive, pure fun activity. What is its evolutionary logic? After all, it is an activity that consumes a great deal of energy for no apparent gain. In reality, though ...
Peter Kappeler, Joan Silk, 2009
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The Cambridge Companion to Atheism
More recently, the physicist Paul Davies, in his book, The Mind of God (1992: 232 ), opines that the reflective power of human minds can be “no trivial detail, no minor by-product of mindless purposeless forces.” This is a most revealing way of  ...
Michael Martin, 2006
8
Japanese Religions Past and Present
The right art', cried the Master, 'is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your ...
Esben Andreasen, Ian Reader, Finn Stefansson, 2013
9
Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy
The only objects that seem purposeless are aesthetic objects, on the one hand, and men, on the other. You cannot ask quem adfinem? — for what purpose? — since they are good for nothing. But we saw that the purposeless art objects, ...
Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner, 1989
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The Things We Do: Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to ...
Psychological Perspectives on Behavior: From Purposeful to Purposeless From a purposeful perspective on behavior . . . The pursuance of future ends and the choice of means for their attainment are thus the mark and criterion of the ...
Gary Cziko, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PURPOSELESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term purposeless is used in the context of the following news items.
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Woody Allens Purposeless Irrational Man Stars Puppets, Not People
Woody Allen's Purposeless 'Irrational Man' Stars Puppets, Not People. Just when you think the auteur might let his characters taste the life they so loquaciously ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
2
Purposeless Traffic Light Slated To Be Removed From West High …
Purposeless Traffic Light Slated To Be Removed From West High Street. As it currently stands, the West Pottsgrove light adds significant traffic by causing ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
3
Terminator Genisys review: Arnold is the only reason to watch this …
... iconic role (he was absent in the forgettable 2009 entry "Terminator Salvation" while governor) provides much of the appeal of this otherwise purposeless redo ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
4
Treefort 2015: Emily Wells Discusses "Purposeless Play" at Hackfort
Wells began with a quote from John Cage, in which he called making music "purposeless play" meant "simply to wake [us] up to the very life we're living." Wells ... «Boise Weekly, Mar 15»
5
Stop the 'purposeless lamentation' over Ghana's challenges …
President John Dramani Mahama has advised Ghanaians not to “slide into purposeless lamentation” and “self pity”over Ghana's challenges as the country ... «Citifmonline, Mar 15»
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Popular websites from around the world to remove purposeless
New Delhi. Tech giant Google today received a big shock as popular websites from around the world have decided to remove Google+ share button from their ... «Firstpost, Jan 15»
7
BRUCE FEIN: It's ending purposeless, perpetual, global warfare …
But that is because presidential aspirants have failed to discern and to explain the direct connection between, on the one hand, purposeless, perpetual, global ... «Washington Times, Dec 14»
8
'Indian Navy is Purposeless sans Merchant Fleet'
“It (the Navy) is then a vacuous bombast, pursuing a near purposeless existence of merely showing the flag in countries which are no fools in today's globalised ... «The New Indian Express, Oct 14»
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The Purposeless, Driven Life
Christians come in all shapes, sizes, and maturity levels, and the more honest we are, the more fun we are to be with, even if what we're saying or working ... «Beliefnet, Sep 14»
10
Some see protests as powerful tool, others purposeless
Shreveport-Bossier City residents are making a habit of letting everyone know when they're mad as hell. Controversial entertainer coming to perform a show? «Shreveport Times, Aug 14»
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