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
People who are depressed and suicidal feel helpless, powerless, useless, worthless, meaningless and purposeless.
From Salon • Jul. 11, 2022
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
Shame on those who further deepen these women’s anguish with purposeless incarceration.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2019
What they feared even more, Celia realized later, was that passion might spare them entirely, that they’d die conventionally, smug and purposeless, having never savored its blackness.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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