Word family noun purpose purposefulness ≠ purposelessness adjective purposeful ≠ purposeless adverb purposefully ≠ purposelessly purposely
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpurposelesspur‧pose‧less /ˈpɜːpəsləs $ ˈpɜːr-/ adjective PURPOSE#not having a clear aim or purpose OPP purposeful hours of purposeless activity —purposelessly adverb —purposelessness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpus
purposeless• The violence is purposeless and impulsive.• It is certainly true that more roses are ruined by incorrect or purposeless cutting than any other cause.• When we lay together at night, there was something purposeless in our pleasure.• Darwinist dogma that asserts life began and developed by a sequence of purposeless random accidents remains a metaphysical belief.• The chief effect is to highlight the horror of the desolate and pre-human world of purposeless suffering.• It is purposeless to try to summarise what was said.• He felt as though he lived in a purposeless world. 