| 单词 | purposeless |
| 释义 | Word family noun purpose purposefulness ≠ purposelessness adjective purposeful ≠ purposeless adverb purposefully ≠ purposelessly purposely pur·pose·less /ˈpɜːpəsləs $ ˈpɜːr-/ adjective PURPOSE#not having a clear aim or purpose 无目的的，无目标的 OPP purposeful hours of purposeless activity 几小时漫无目的的活动 —purposelessly adverb —purposelessness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpuspurposeless• 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.pur·pose·less adjectiveChineseSyllable clear purpose having aim not a Corpus or |
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