Word Meanings - POINTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POINTLESS)
- Ambagious
- Tortuous
- indirect
- anfractuous
- circumlocutory
- circuitous
- periphrastic
- ambiguous
- unintelligible
- pointless
- disjointed
- Blunt
- Dull
- obtuse
- edgeless
- insensitive
- bluff
- coarse
- impolite
- plain-mannered
- uncivil
- rude
- Inane
- Empty
- vapid
- feeble
- characterless
- Vague
- General
- lax
- indefinite
- undetermined
- popular
- intangible
- equivocal
- unsettled
- uncertain
- ill-defined
- Washy
- Weak
- diluted
- spiritless
Related words: (words related to POINTLESS)
- POPULARIZATION
The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people. - DILUTENESS
The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins. - BLUFF-HEADED
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. - DISJOINT
Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton. - COARSE
was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts - OBTUSE
1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. 2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton. 3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - CIRCUITOUS
Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - UNCIVILIZATION
The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. - EDGELESS
Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon. - BLUFFNESS
The quality or state of being bluff. - CIRCUMLOCUTORY
Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - BLUNTISH
Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n. - UNCIVILTY
In an uncivil manner. - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - UNDETERMINABLE
Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - BLUFFY
1. Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks. 2. Inclined to bo bluff; brusque. - SWASHY
Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry