About The Word Useless
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Useless
Useless Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Useless?
[adj] not useful; "a curiously unhelpful and useless manual"
[adj] having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency" Synonyms | Synonyms for Useless: cast-off(a) | discarded | futile | ineffectual | inutile | junked | otiose | scrap(a) | unavailing | unhelpful | unprofitable | unserviceable | unusable | unuseable | waste Related Terms | Find terms related to Useless: See Also | ineffective | uneffective Useless In Webster's Dictionary \Use"less\, a.
Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good
end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end
proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment;
useless pity.
Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and
thence ridiculous. --Milton.
Syn: Fruitless; ineffectual.
Usage: {Useless}, {Fruitless}, {Ineffectual}. We speak of an
attempt, effort, etc., as being useless when there are
in it inherent difficulties which forbid the hope of
success, as fruitless when it fails, not from any such
difficulties, but from some unexpected hindrance
arising to frustrate it; as, the design was rendered
fruitless by the death of its projector. Ineffectual
nearly resembles fruitless, but implies a failure of a
less hopeless character; as, after several ineffectual
efforts, I at last succeeded.
Useless are all words Till you have writ
``performance'' with your swords. The other is
for waiving. --Beau. & Fl.
Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation
to this controversy, as being either needless or
fruitless. --Waterland.
Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake
as never man spake, was ineffectual to many.
--Bp.
Stillingfleet.
-- {Use"less*ly}, adv. -- {Use"less*ness}, n.
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