WORTHLESSNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does worthlessness mean?
• WORTHLESSNESS (noun)
The noun WORTHLESSNESS has 2 senses:
1. having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
2. the quality of being without practical use
Familiarity information: WORTHLESSNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WORTHLESSNESS (noun)
Meaning:
Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
worthlessness; ineptitude
Context example:
the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness
Hypernyms ("worthlessness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "worthlessness"):
fecklessness (worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual)
groundlessness; idleness (the quality of lacking substance or value)
paltriness; sorriness (worthlessness due to insignificance)
valuelessness (having none of the properties that endow something with value)
shoddiness; trashiness (the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better)
damn; darn; hoot; red cent; shit; shucks; tinker's dam; tinker's damn (something of little value)
emptiness; vanity (the quality of being valueless or futile)
Antonym:
worth (the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful)
Meaning:
The quality of being without practical use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("worthlessness" is a kind of...):
inutility; unusefulness; uselessness (the quality of having no practical use)
