useless

useless: [[t]ju͟ːsləs[/t]]
1) ADJ-GRADED: usu v-link ADJ If something is useless, you cannot use it.

He realised that their money was useless in this country...

Computers would be useless without software writers.

Ant:

useful

Derived words:

uselessly ADV-GRADED
His right arm hung rather uselessly.

uselessness N-UNCOUNT
The car had rusted almost to the point of uselessness.

2) ADJ-GRADED: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf If something is useless, it does not achieve anything helpful or good.

She knew it was useless to protest.

...a useless punishment which fails to stop drug trafficking.

Syn:

pointless

Derived words:

uselessly ADV-GRADED
Uselessly, he checked the same pockets he'd checked before.

uselessness N-UNCOUNT
...the uselessness of their research.

3) ADJ-GRADED: oft ADJ at n If you say that someone or something is useless, you mean that they are no good at all. [INFORMAL]

Their education system is useless...

He was useless at any game with a ball.

Syn:

hopeless

4) ADJ-GRADED If someone feels useless, they feel bad because they are unable to help someone or achieve anything.

She sits at home all day, watching TV and feeling useless.

Derived words:

uselessness N-UNCOUNT
...the sense of uselessness and the boredom of empty days.

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Synonyms:

Unavailing, fruitless, bootless, profitless, unprofitable, unserviceable, valueless, worthless, futile, abortive, of no use, ineffectual, nugatory, null / Unserviceable, worthless, valueless, good for nothing, of no use

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