Word Meanings - PURPOSELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PURPOSELESS)

• Random
• Haphazard
• stray
• chance
• wild
• aimless
• purposeless
• unpremeditated
• casual
• vague
• accidental

Related words: (words related to PURPOSELESS)

• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• CASUALISM
  The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.
• VAGUELY
  In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Hawthorne.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• RANDOMLY
  In a random manner.
• CHANCE
  Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• CHANCEL
  lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
• AIMLESS
  Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life. -- Aim"less*ly, adv. -- Aim"less*ness, n.
• CASUALTY
  Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident. Syn. -- Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune. (more info) 1. That which comes
• CHANCEABLY
  By chance.
• CHANCERY
  1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now
• ACCIDENTALNESS
  The quality of being accidental; casualness.
• CASUALNESS
  The quality of being casual.
• STRAYER
  One who strays; a wanderer.
• CASUALLY
  Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.
• ACCIDENTALITY
  The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. Coleridge.
• VAGUE
  1. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. "To set upon the vague villains." Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats. 2. Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition. This faith is
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• ASTRAY
  Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• MISCHANCE
  Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
• BECHANCE
  By chance; by accident. Grafton.
• MISCHANCEFUL
  Unlucky. R. Browning.