英：['pɔɪntləsnəs]
美：['pɔɪntləsnəs]
pointlessness如何读
pointlessness是什么意思
- n.钝的(无意义的)
pointlessness词根
词根：point
adj.pointless 无意义的；钝的；不尖的；不得要领的
adv.pointlessly 不相干地；漫无目标地；不得要领地（pointless的副词形式）
n.point 要点；得分；标点；[机] 尖端
vi.point 表明；指向
vt.point 指向；弄尖；加标点于
pointlessness英英释义
- n.total lack of meaning or ideas
pointlessness词源英文解释
The first known use of pointless was in 1582
pointlessness儿童词典英英释义
poise1 of 2verb
balance entry 2 sense 5especially: to hold or make firm or steady by balancing
to hold without motion in a steady position : hover
a bird poised in the air
to put into readiness : brace
poised for action
poise2 of 2noun
balance entry 1 sense 4, equilibrium
a dignified self-confident manner
a speaker of great poise
a way of carrying oneself : bearing
pointyadjective
coming to a rather sharp point
having parts that stick out sharply here and there
pointlessadjective
lacking meaning : senseless
a pointless remark
ineffective sense 1
pointless attempts to be funny
pointlessness 例句
1 On the surface, the movie’s main subjects are originality in art, the fallibility of experts and the pointlessness of assessing authorship, at least when confronted with a masterpiece.
2 It would have made for a long, overwrought ending typical of the Russell T Davies era, and part of the thrill of this departure was the quick, accidental pointlessness of it all.
3 In a well-constructed programme, Our Drugs War encapsulated the pointlessness of our involvement in Afghanistan.
4 Very ugly, but I love it for its pointlessness.
5 But the sense of giddy pointlessness is Russian to the core.
6 The pointlessness and sheer waste of effort in these school reports is quite something.
在这些成绩单上所作的工作毫无意义，完全是一种浪费。
7 This reinforces to me the pointlessness of what I’m thinking.
这能够提示我：现在所想的是毫无意义的。
8 I couldn’t help feeling a kind of helpless and dispiriting pointlessness in what I was doing.
9 Not only for the pointlessness of the tragedy but because of the enormity of the interconnected global war machine that caused it.
10 Did Villeneuve kill off the blade runner to underline the replicant’s existential tristesse, the pointlessness of life when faced with the reality that you are just an ersatz version of the real thing?
11 As the conflict continues in Ukraine, Ms Pugh said that the reunion was even more poignant, and reflected on the "pointlessness" of wars.
12 This punishment did initially strike me as something of an exercise in pointlessness.
开始时，我的确认为这种惩罚毫无意义。
13 Though not strictly a horror movie, “She Dies Tomorrow” sees Seimetz’s vision build to a horrifying pointlessness.
14 This year, in terms of talent, publicity and execution, it seems unlikely that any film will manage to beat The Canyons when it comes to sheer undiluted pointlessness.
15 The random pointlessness of the killing shocked Houston.
16 This song, about the pointlessness of material goods if you don’t have the one you love, “poured out of me” on a plane after hearing the news.
17 Or borderline personality disorder and depression, which lead patients repeatedly to express the lack of meaning and the pointlessness of their existence.
18 A book so determined to chase its own tail in its pointlessness has every right to become a cult classic.
19 The pointlessness of it all is especially despicable when you understand that space tourism is funded with the hoarded wealth of billions of workers who are struggling to survive here on Earth.
20 The article included a long excursus on the pointlessness of looking for anagrammatic ciphers; a note revealed that the statement itself was an anagram.