Modifying Another Word

• utterly: They are utterly useless for resolving any connection problems.

• practically: By itself, logic is practically useless " ( Meta.

• virtually: For visual examination, discrete pieces of material must be supplied, powdered material being virtually useless.

• totally: You are then in an almost totally useless shell from where you can trash your disks in a variety of interesting ways.

• pretty: A computer by itself is pretty useless - you will also need appropriate software to do the work.

• completely: Forget about bending springs, they are completely useless.

Preposition: for

• purpose: He'll continue like that for days now, like an animal walking in a happy dream, quite useless for all practical purposes.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• render: Filtering messages with an empty envelope sender risks to render these attempts useless.

Modifies a noun

• eater: It will affect us, because we are the ` useless eaters ' .

• bastard: We HATE those scum over here... ****ing right about that, ****ing useless bastards!

• bunch: If you don't, you will simply get masses of tiny, useless bunches of grapes.

• lump: All the idols of the nations of the world are nothing - just useless lumps of wood and stone.

• rubbish: What many currently see as useless rubbish, others view as a potential resource.

• info: A bit of useless info for you: I still have the original figures from the first release of the toys!

Used with adjective complement

• render: Here, faith is rendering useless the attacks of the enemy.

• prove: Using the same messages to inform a local environmental group, on the other hand, may prove useless.

• seem: It seems even useless to say that the matter is open to suspicion.

• become: The previous paths do not become useless; they just become inefficient.

• feel: His family sitting beside his bedside holding his now frail hand, feeling so useless as they watched his young life slipping away.