purposeless

英 [ˈpɜːpəsləs]

美 [ˈpɜːrpəsləs]

adj. 无目的的; 无用的; 无意义的

BNC.33731 / COCA.30310

牛津词典

adj.

无目的的；无用的；无意义的
having no meaning, use or clear aim
1. purposeless destruction
  盲目的破坏

柯林斯词典

ADJ-GRADED 漫无目的的；无意义的
If an action ispurposeless, it does not seem to have a sensible purpose.
1. Time may also be wasted in purposeless meetings...
  时间也可能浪费在毫无意义的会议当中。
2. Surely my existence cannot be so purposeless?
  当然我的存在不能如此没有意义吧？

英英释义

adj

not evidencing any purpose or goal
serving no useful purpose
1. otiose lines in a play
2. advice is wasted words
3. a pointless remark
4. a life essentially purposeless
5. senseless violence
Synonym:otiosepointlesssenselesssuperfluouswasted

双语例句

A pointless remark; a life essentially purposeless; senseless violence.
无意义的评论；本质上无意义的生活；无意义的暴力。
Surely my existence cannot be so purposeless?
当然我的存在不能如此没有意义吧？
History is a purposeless activity.
历史是一个毫无意义的活动。
I have been exhilarated by two days of storm, but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.
我已经被二天的暴风雨使高兴的，但是最重要者我爱这些长者无目的的每天在哪一个曾经是我流出所有的。
But are people losing their love of the purposeless walk?
但是人们是否正逐渐对漫无目的的行走失去兴趣？
I belong to the group of scientists who do not subscribe to a conventional religion but nevertheless deny that the universe is a purposeless accident.
我属于那群对传统宗教不买账的科学家，但是我却否认宇宙是一个没有目的的事故。
Time may also be wasted in purposeless meetings
时间也可能浪费在毫无意义的会议当中。
The society that he depicts is amoral and purposeless.
他所描述的社会是无道德标准和漫无目的的。
This can seem purposeless, and yet the practice of emptying the mind can bring great insight into the many ways we struggle and strive to fill it.
这看起来似乎漫无目的，然而这种放空感知的行为，在很多方面，可以为我们带来强大的洞察力，而这正是我们努力想要填补的缺憾。
On the traits of beauty, Kant established aesthetics non-utility, non-conceptional universality, purposeless finality and non-conceptional certainty, and founded the base of subjectivity aesthetics thought.
在美的特质论中，康德确立了审美的无利害、无概念的普遍性、无目的的合目的性和无概念的必然性，从而奠定了主体性美学思想的基础。