Difference between Pointless and Superfluous

POINTLESS vs SUPERFLUOUS: ADJECTIVE

In excess of what is required or sufficient.
An interval that exceeds a major or perfect interval by a semitone.
More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive.
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
More than is needed, desired, or required
Being beyond what is required or sufficient.

More than is wanted or sufficient; unnecessary from being in excess of what is needed; excessive; redundant; needless: as, a composition abounding with superfluous words.
Supplied with superfluities; having somewhat beyond necessaries.
Doing more than what is called for; supererogatory.
Excessive.
Having no excuse for being
In music, of intervals, augmented.
Serving no useful purpose

Nonsensical, Fruitless, Silly, Irrelevant, Futile, Useless, Unpointed, Blunt, Wasted, Senseless, Worthless, Otiose, Purposeless, Superfluous, Meaningless

Extraneous, Useless, Surplus, Excess, Spare, Supernumerary, Extra, Supererogatory, Wasted, Worthless, Unneeded, Redundant, Otiose, Unnecessary, Pointless

Nonsensical, Fruitless, Silly, Irrelevant, Futile, Useless, Unpointed, Blunt, Wasted, Senseless, Worthless, Otiose, Purposeless, Superfluous, Meaningless

Extraneous, Useless, Surplus, Excess, Spare, Supernumerary, Extra, Supererogatory, Wasted, Worthless, Unneeded, Redundant, Otiose, Unnecessary, Pointless

One can hardly imagine a more pointless quarrel.
Putting it in the legal agreement is pointless.
Ion is the recording device, its pretty pointless.
Why Do We Continue to Embrace Pointless Stereotypes?
This fixation on a word is completely pointless.
This is counterproductive and in my opinion, pointless.
Depart all pointless valuables in your own home.
It was a pointless thing to say, it's pointless to go batshit about it.
Physical activity and obesity editorial: is exercise pointless or was it a pointless exercise?
But doing a new stereo mix for that record is pointless, pointless!

Superfluous copies should not be made or kept.
SUBMERGED BALLAST PUMPS make the pump room superfluous.
This description, of course, made the section superfluous.
First, a statute cannot be interpreted as superfluous.
Spot superfluous adjectives, weak verbs, and unwanted repetitions.
What a superfluous use of time and money.
It would be superfluous to multiply these examples.
These are not superfluous decorations or lifestyle choices.
Internal Revenue Service Omit superfluous words Words are superfluous when they can be replaced with fewer words that mean the same thing.
And to the believer it must be superfluous, if true notices of Christ are superfluous to believers.