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 purposelessrandomaccidents remains a metaphysicalbelief.• The chief effect is to highlight the horror of the desolate and pre-human world of purposelesssuffering.• It is purposeless to try to summarise what was said.• He felt as though he lived in a purposeless world.