Thesaurus / valueless
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The soldiers so frequently threw away copper coin given them in change as valueless, that many natives discontinued to offer it.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
If the South failed, the promises would be valueless; if it succeeded, the obligations would be met as promptly as possible.
THE SUPPLIES FOR THE CONFEDERATE ARMYCALEB HUSE
In itself valueless, yet a treasure in her eyes and mine, for it will protect our child, and many an envious eye is upon her.
CONFESSIONS OF A THUGPHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR
The estate hardly meets its own mortgage, and the land has been so neglected as to be almost valueless.
THE RAKE'S PROGRESSMARJORIE BOWEN
This alcoholic preparation of lactucarium is quite as valueless and more objectionable than the syrup of the same drug.
If it were not for that, the Union would be valueless, and the Constitution not worth the parchment on which it is written.
THE DUTY OF DISOBEDIENCE TO THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACTLYDIA MARIA CHILD
But the long campaigns were costly and apparently valueless.
It is but a poor, valueless thing, but it will bring you in your five francs, at any rate.
MY LADY LUDLOWELIZABETH GASKELL
He did not toss it from him then as a thing that was valueless.
AN OLD MAN'S LOVEANTHONY TROLLOPE
If I could not find that explanation, my theory was valueless.
TRENT'S LAST CASEE.C. (EDMUND CLERIHEW) BENTLEY
WORDS RELATED TO VALUELESS
- atomic
- beside the point
- commonplace
- diminutive
- evanescent
- everyday
- flimsy
- frivolous
- immaterial
- inappreciable
- incidental
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- insignificant
- irrelevant
- little
- meager
- mean
- meaningless
- microscopic
- minor
- minute
- momentary
- negligible
- nonessential
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- petty
- piddling
- puny
- scanty
- skin-deep
- slight
- small
- superficial
- trifling
- trite
- unimportant
- valueless
- vanishing
- worthless
- below par
- debilitated
- decrepit
- discordant
- down
- dragging
- feeble
- flimsy
- ill-adapted
- ill-equipped
- ill-suited
- improper
- inadequate
- inapplicable
- inappropriate
- incompatible
- incongruous
- incorrect
- ineffective
- inexpedient
- infelicitous
- inharmonious
- laid low
- mistaken
- not fit
- out of element
- out of place
- out of shape
- poorly
- rocky
- unbecoming
- uncongenial
- uncool
- unhealthy
- unlikely
- unmeet
- unpromising
- unsuitable
- unsuited
- useless
- valueless
- abortive
- bootless
- counterproductive
- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
- fruitless
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
- impracticable
- impractical
- incompetent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inept
- inoperative
- inutile
- meaningless
- no good
- nonfunctional
- of no use
- pointless
- profitless
- purposeless
- scrap
- stupid
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfunctional
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- unusuable
- unworkable
- vain
- valueless
- waste
- weak
- worthless
- base
- beneath
- blamable
- contemptible
- degrading
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- disreputable
- good-for-nothing
- ignoble
- improper
- inappropriate
- ineligible
- inexcusable
- no-account
- no-good
- not deserving
- not fit
- not good enough
- not worth
- nothing
- offensive
- out of place
- recreant
- reprehensible
- shameful
- unbecoming
- unbefitting
- undeserving
- unfit
- unmerited
- unseemly
- unsuitable
- valueless
- vile
- wretched
- wrong
- abortive
- bootless
- counterproductive
- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
- fruitless
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
- impracticable
- impractical
- incompetent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inept
- inoperative
- inutile
- meaningless
- no good
- nonfunctional
- of no use
- pointless
- profitless
- purposeless
- scrap
- stupid
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfunctional
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- unusuable
- unworkable
- vain
- valueless
- waste
- weak
- worthless
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- delusory
- empty
- frivolous
- fruitless
- going nowhere
- hollow
- idle
- in vicious circle
- inefficacious
- insignificant
- misleading
- no-win
- not a prayer
- nugatory
- on a treadmill
- otiose
- paltry
- petty
- pointless
- profitless
- puny
- senseless
- shuck
- slight
- sterile
- time-wasting
- trifling
- trivial
- unavailing
- unimportant
- unnotable
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- valueless
- void
- worthless
- abandoned
- abject
- barren
- base
- bogus
- cheap
- contemptible
- counterproductive
- despicable
- empty
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- ignoble
- inconsequential
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inferior
- insignificant
- inutile
- meaningless
- mediocre
- miserable
- no-account
- no-good
- nothing
- nugatory
- paltry
- pointless
- poor
- profitless
- sterile
- trashy
- trifling
- trivial
- unavailing
- unessential
- unimportant
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unusable
- useless
- valueless
- waste
- wretched
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