useless
Origin of useless
1synonym study For useless
Other words for useless
Opposites for useless
Other words from useless
- use·less·ly, adverb
- use·less·ness, noun
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How to use useless in a sentence
The salt in the water had rendered the land useless for the next three or four years.
Dividers between tables, meanwhile, could stop people from sneezing or coughing on each other, but are useless to stop aerosol transmission.
How to make restaurants safer during the pandemic | Charlotte Jee | October 28, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewHowever, research has shown that B2B buyers say companies often provide too much material that is either useless or lacks substance.
Brands are rethinking content strategies to make personalization pay off | Sitecore | October 23, 2020 | DigidayIf mind wandering really is a useless activity, that would leave us with about 50,000,000 wasted thoughts over the course of a lifetime.
The paper also notes the telescope would likely need significant power storage because observations would take place during the two-week-long lunar night, when solar panels would be useless.
The Far Side of the Moon Is an Ideal Place to Listen For Alien Civilizations | Jason Dorrier | October 4, 2020 | Singularity Hub
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is to uselessness what Henry Ford was to the automobile.
For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockHe even opened his lips to speak, but closed them again with a sense of the uselessness of the attempt.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondShe was longing to urge her to leave Craddock Dene, but was deterred by the knowledge of the uselessness of such advice.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona CairdNot having anything else to do, and her uselessness vexing her, she took to doctoring the poor and concocting medicines.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksIt does not wear its antiquity as an excuse for sinking into mouldering uselessness.
Patchwork | Anna Balmer Myers
British Dictionary definitions for useless
/ (ˈjuːslɪs) /
having no practical use or advantage
informal ineffectual, weak, or stupid: he's useless at history
Derived forms of useless
- uselessly, adverb
- uselessness, noun
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