useless
use·less (-lis)
adjective
- having no use; unserviceable; worthless
- to no purpose; ineffectual; of no avail
useless
modif.
Unserviceable
worthless, unusable, inutile, ineffectual, expendable, incompetent, of no use, ineffective, inoperative, broken, dysfunctional, counterproductive, inefficient, unprofitable, no damn good*. Antonyms
efficient*, usable, operative. Futile
futile, vain, unavailing, fruitless; see hopeless 2. See syn. study at futile.
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.
There are even times when any assumption of dignity becomes ludicrous, and the traveller must, as Mungo Park once had to do,'lay down as a rule to make himself as useless and as insignificant as possible, as the only means of recovering his liberty'.
Lord, let me not live to be useless!
Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to make.
All wars are useless to the dead.
Browse dictionary entries near useless
- usefulness
- useful life
- useful
- used to
- used
- useable
- use up
- use immunity
- use
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