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use·less
 useless
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- pronunciation:
- yus
lihs
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
serving no beneficial or practical purpose.
I regret paying good money for this useless product.His advice was useless because he really didn't understand my problem.These old tapes are useless now that we no longer have anything to play them on.The old remedies were in fact useless against the disease.- synonyms:
- aimless, good-for-nothing, purposeless, valueless, worthless
- antonyms:
- beneficial, grateful, helpful, profitable, useful, valuable
- similar words:
- idle, impractical, 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, as his attackers knew no mercy.All efforts to save the ship were useless in the raging storm.- 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.) |
The word useless
contains the following parts:
us, ut, util
Latin
root
that means use
  Example words:
-less
Middle English
adjective-forming suffix
that means without
More about this word part:
The suffix -less
attaches primarily to monosyllabic English nouns. However, -less
is a fully productive suffix, meaning it can be added to any noun to form legitimate new words.
Example words:
aimless, breathless, careless, countless, doubtless, endless, fearless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, penniless, priceless, regardless, restless, sightless, tasteless, thoughtless, useless, wireless, weightless, worthless
- synonyms:
- a-1, an-1
- antonyms:
- -ful1
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