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going nowhere
adjective as in pointless
Strongest matches
adjective as in vain
Weak matches
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- delusory
- empty
- hollow
- idle
- in vicious circle
- inefficacious
- insignificant
- misleading
- no-win
- not a prayer
- nugatory
- on a treadmill
- otiose
- paltry
- pointless
- profitless
- puny
- senseless
- shuck
- slight
- sterile
- time-wasting
- trifling
- unavailing
- unimportant
- unnotable
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- valueless
- void
- worthless
Example Sentences
One day Russia would be without Putin, in other words, but Ukraine would be going nowhere.
But so much of it still involves nothing: doing nothing, feeling nothing, going nowhere.
Mroueh said he was going nowhere.
She was also doing battle against the station’s chyrons, which were equivalently dismissive of her answers—one read “Going Nowhere Fast”—as well as an assembled spin room, members of which spent the back half of the hourlong block praising Baier and condemning Harris’s “thin” answers and “rough” moments.
Indeed, without its billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts, SpaceX would be going nowhere fast, even in Earth orbit.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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