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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
They had no idea of the danger they were in, and here she was, useless, half a world away!
Penelope crumpled the useless form behind her back.
It left her feeling confused and a bit lost, like a person dropped in a strange city with only a useless guidebook to find her way around.
Slightly submerged, it was now so close to the enemy ship that the Housatonic’s twelve cannons were useless.
Remember when he said after Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying that he was "just useless" and "drove terribly" and Ferrari "probably need to change driver"?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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