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• a  not evidencing any purpose or goal
• s  serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  a life essentially purposeless

• Much was made of his celebrated statement that in a purposeless world the only vital question was one of suicide.
• It can interfere with the electrical system of the heart or brain, causing the heart to go into ventricular fibrillation, a purposeless twitching that quickly results in death.
• So with the strike under way, Livingstone blasted the unions, calling the walkout "the most purposeless ever called.

• otiose
• pointless
• senseless
• superfluous
• wasted

• purposeful

News & Articles

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• Her pink skies will keep me warm: Purposelessness
  It’s been two weeks since I’ve done something purposeless in Sierra Leone. And that’s no way to live. Especially not here.
  June 13, 2013 - Old Gold & Black

Quotes

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• Akiva Goldsman in International Herald Tribune
  He's feeling very purposeless and looking for answers,says producer Akiva Goldsman.
• Chris Okotie in The Nation Newspaper
  ...aspirant on the Fresh Democratic Party (FDP), platform, Pastor Chris Okotie yesterday said he has decided to contest next year's election to salvage the country from "inept, corrupt and purposeless leadership of the Peoples Democratic...
• George Gaylord Simpson in Seattle Times
  Or, is man the unguided "result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind," as Harvard paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson wrote?