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USELESS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does useless mean?

• USELESS (adjective)
The adjective USELESS has 1 sense:

1. having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully

Familiarity information: USELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• USELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully

Context examples:

a kitchen full of useless gadgets / she is useless in an emergency

Similar:

futile; ineffectual; otiose; unavailing (producing no result or effect)

inutile; unprofitable (not worth using)

unserviceable; unusable; unuseable (not capable of being used)

Also:

ineffective; ineffectual; uneffective (not producing an intended effect)

unprofitable (producing little or no profit or gain)

unserviceable (not ready for service)

Attribute:

usefulness; utility (the quality of being of practical use)

Antonym:

useful (being of use or service)

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