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purposeless

purposeless adjective: without purpose.

Adjective

purposeless (comparative more purposeless, superlative most purposeless)

  1. Without purpose.
    • Turbulence was everywhere, within every blade of grass, every drop of dew on a leaf, every cloud in the sky, and every star beyond. The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape.2008, Luo Ji, The Dark Forest, →ISBN

purposeless meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

purposeless in Tamil

நோக்கில்லாத

purposeless in Bengali

উদ্দেশ্যহীন, নিরর্থক

Forms of purposeless

comparativemore purposeless
superlativemost purposeless

Origin of purposeless

From purpose + -less.

Words formed from purposeless

Questions about purposeless

What does purposeless mean?
Purposeless means without purpose.
What is purposeless in Tamil?
Purposeless in Tamil is நோக்கில்லாத. See Purposeless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is purposeless?
Purposeless is an adjective.

Words near purposeless in the dictionary

  1. purposedly
  2. purposeful
  3. purposeful availment
  4. purposefully
  5. purposefulness
  6. purposeless
  7. purposelessly
  8. purposelessness
  9. purposelike
  10. purposely
  11. purposer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: purposeless (page history and authors); purposeless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purposeless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purposeless (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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