purposeless
Americanadjective
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having no purpose or apparent meaning.
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having no aim or goal; aimless.
to lead a purposeless existence.
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“So, in a way, my life seems purposeless now,” Wright continues.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024
Meanwhile Kendall has become, in every sense of the word, purposeless now that the competition has finished and he has lost.
From Salon • May 30, 2023
In a crisis of this magnitude, finding the emotional space to care about a single death can feel purposeless, unnecessary.
From The Guardian • May 2, 2020
“The King,” a movie about the dissolute youth and unlikely rise of English monarch Henry V, is a handsome, intriguing, strangely purposeless affair.
From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019
With their hoods up and their purposeless milling, Lazlo thought they looked like a pack of ghosts on coffee break.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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