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use·less
 useless
- pronunciation:
- yus
lihs
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
serving no beneficial or practical purpose.
- synonyms:
- aimless, good-for-nothing, purposeless, valueless, worthless
- antonyms:
- beneficial, grateful, helpful, profitable, useful, valuable
- similar words:
- idle, impractical, naught, no-good, nugatory, trifling, unhelpful, unusable, vain, waste
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| definition 2: |
not able to produce the desired or necessary effect; futile.
His pleas were useless.- synonyms:
- bootless, fruitless, futile, idle, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, vain
- antonyms:
- helpful
- similar words:
- abortive, barren, feeble, hopeless, impotent, impracticable, otiose, pointless, unfeasible, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, unworkable, void
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| related words: |
academic, bad, bum, dead, empty, meaningless, needless, refuse, senseless |
| derivations: |
uselessly (adv.), uselessness (n.) |
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