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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
A setup close to or including a bathroom or the kitchen would work well, but the latter is less essential considering you can store food in your chosen room and the appliances may be useless in a power outage anyway.
Traditional code-breaking methods appeared useless against the new technology.
That could mean involving more companies like Amazon Web Services or Cloudflare, which can render websites and online applications useless by depriving them of the necessary infrastructure to operate.
Governments also deliberately reduced internet bandwidths for more than 7,200 hours, bringing speeds down to 2G—SMS and voice calls continue to function but modern websites and apps are rendered useless.
“The implementation has ended up essentially being useless,” said Abercrombie, who went on to serve as the state’s governor, in a recent interview.
Most people could agree on whether a given configuration of materials is a functioning vehicle or a useless set of parts.
In another generation, it will be useless, leading visitors straight into a pillar.
Effectively, dozens of brand new jets worth billions of dollars are sitting on the ground useless.
But policies and cheap raw materials are useless if businesses fail to take advantage of them.
“My insurance, even though I finally got it, was useless,” she said.
Of course Edna would like to hear Mademoiselle Reisz play; but she feared it would be useless to entreat her.
When a leaf is so young that it wraps itself around the main stalk it's useless to try to turn it over.
At an early date we find, further, a perfectly useless kind of imitation which is more akin to that of art.
It would be useless to put you to the expense of drawings, until you have made up your minds on what you intend to have done.
You will do well to send a note to your amiable friend Carr; it may save him a useless journey; for at my table he shall not sit.
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