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useless
[ yoos-lis ]
adjective
- of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile:
It is useless to reason with him.
Synonyms: profitless, inutile, worthless, valueless, fruitless
Antonyms: effective
- without useful qualities; of no practical good:
a useless person; a useless gadget.
Synonyms: unusable, unserviceable
useless
/ ˈjuːslɪs /
adjective
- having no practical use or advantage
- informal.ineffectual, weak, or stupid
he's useless at history
Derived Forms
- ˈuselessly, adverb
- ˈuselessness, noun
Other Words From
- useless·ly adverb
- useless·ness noun
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“The effort is praiseworthy, but so excessively tardy that it is perfectly useless,” a collective of linguists wrote in the Liberation newspaper on Thursday.
He has told the jury all the information he gave the Iranians was “fake” or “useless”.
But civil discourse has been ground down to a useless nub at this point, and a presidential candidate can share crude jokes about his opponent with barely a blip in the news cycle.
The few times I’ve tried it I’ve felt somewhere between useless to misused, treading the empty road between households where no one is home and no one talks.
He came under fire in over a decade ago when he described the academic staff at the University of Botswana as “useless”, despite being a former lecturer.
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