🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典 🎯
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典

檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
IELTS BNC: 7557 COCA: 11452

pointless

Word family 
point·less /ˈpɔɪntləs/ ●○○ adjectiveadj  
POINTLESSworthless or not likely to have any useful result 无益的，无用的
 Life just seemed pointless to me.
生活对我来说简直没什么意义。
 a pointless quarrel
无谓的争吵
it is pointless doing something
 It’s pointless telling her to clean her room – she’ll never do it.
叫她打扫自己的房间没有用，她绝对不会去干的。
it is pointless to do something
 I think it would be pointless to discuss this issue again.
我认为再讨论这个问题毫无意义。
—pointlessly adverbadv
—pointlessness noun [uncountableU]
n THESAURUS
pointless not likely to have a useful result
She knew it would be pointless to argue with him.
The meeting was a pointless exercise.
futile completely pointless because there is no chance at all of being successful
She shut the door in a futile attempt to keep the smell out.
Their efforts proved futile (=did not have any success).
useless not useful or effective in any way
I knew it was useless to try to explain to him what had happened.
The map we had been given was useless.
hopeless having no hope of being successful or effective
It was a hopeless task.
He was jumping up and down in a hopeless attempt to keep warm.
be a waste of time/money/effort to be not worth the time, money etc that you use because you do not achieve anything
The whole process was a complete waste of time.
The scheme was a waste of money.
Examples from the Corpus
pointless• Officials say the investigation is pointless.• The argument was completely pointless.• I felt strong; there was a point to a life that had seemed pointless.• It could also be said that without evaluation, proper identification of need is pointless!• Until Tuesday night, the question seemed almost pointless.• When you watch them you think it almost looks pointless.• a pointless, brutal murder• Bills with bipartisan sponsorship have been introduced in both chambers to repeal this pointless cruelty.• pointless drug testing on animals• Instead of allowing this to be a frustrating and pointless event, ask yourself why you created it.• Speculating like that was always a pointless exercise, but he did it nevertheless.• We had to change the sheets daily, which always seemed to me to be a pointless exercise.• Never give your students pointless exercises to do -- always provide interesting, meaningful tasks.• What she thought intolerable was that people could hate each other in a silly, pointless place where peace was possible.• People stood in groups, making pointless small talk.• It is pointless to argue about who is more to blame.• The company says it is pointless to compete in the air package holiday market.• It's pointless to take notes and then never look at them again.• Simon was probably dead, and it was pointless to think he was coming back.• It's pointless trying to speak to the manager -- she's always too busy.• She decided it was pointless trying to work while her mind was on other things.• Look, it's pointless us both waiting here -- I'll go and find a phone.• a film full of pointless violence• Most people think the project is a pointless waste of money.• It was pointless, we were told.
it is pointless to do something• It is pointless to look at the budget again.• However, it is pointless to plan too far ahead.
point·less adjectiveadj →n THESAURUS1
LDOCE Online
Chinese
Syllable
Corpus
IELTS BNC: 7557 COCA: 11452
pointless

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB VERBS➤be, seem無意義；好像無意義▸➤become變得無意義▸➤consider sth, find sth, think sth認為⋯無意義◇She considered it pointless to plan in too much detail.她認為計劃過於詳細沒有意義。➤make sth, render sth使⋯無意義◇This renders the project pointless.這使得該項目毫無意義。ADVERB➤absolutely, completely, entirely, quite, totally, utterly毫無意義；沒有什麼意義◇The whole discussion was utterly pointless.整個討論完全沒有意義。➤almost, fairly, pretty, rather, somewhat幾乎／有些／相當／頗為／有點兒不得要領▸➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒／稍微有些無意義▸➤apparently, seemingly顯得／看起來無意義➤ultimately最終無意義◇The film is entertaining but ultimately pointless.這部電影娛樂性較強，但說到底毫無意義。
IELTS BNC: 7557 COCA: 11452
pointless adj.
⇨ useless
IELTS BNC: 7557 COCA: 11452
pointless
Not effective or useful and not working correctly: useless, ineffective, inefficient...

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 朗文詞典 📚 – longman.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime