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useless
adjective as in not working; not valuable
Strongest matches
counterproductive, fruitless, futile, hopeless, idle, impractical, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inoperative, meaningless, no good, pointless, stupid, unproductive, unworkable, worthless
Weak matches
abortive, bootless, disadvantageous, dysfunctional, expendable, feckless, good-for-nothing, impracticable, inept, inutile, nonfunctional, of no use, profitless, purposeless, scrap, unavailable, unavailing, unfunctional, unprofitable, unpurposed, unusuable, vain, valueless, waste, weak
Example Sentences
One user on X said "Marriott has been useless", and wanted to charge him hundreds of dollars a night to rebook him at one of its Courtyard brand hotels.
But the quality of the reports would suffer, economists say, and they might come out so late as to be practically useless.
He explained that it was useless to attack a building or a platform or a walkway.
All of which brings us back to the scene with the Chinese laborer, and the symbolism of losing the person on the other end of the saw, rendering it useless.
A working gold toilet seems a much better use of bullion than, say, making it into bars and then just having it sit, useless, in vaults in Fort Knox.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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