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.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• 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
• 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