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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
Yale University’s new research doesn’t quite say that Medicare and Medicaid are blowing billions of taxpayer dollars on expensive prescription drugs that are completely useless.
A few hours before Russian forces entered the region, Utkin wiped the software from the batteries, turning them into “expensive bricks” that are now essentially useless.
"So as usual they feel embarrassed, they think they should do something and they react and they say 1 million shillings reward. Absolutely useless," the activist said.
In the crosshairs are narratives like "studying is useless" and "hard work is useless", as well as stories that promote "world-weariness".
Tower could be so heavily damaged in a major earthquake that it would be rendered useless to county officials.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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