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useless::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | uselessness |
a kitchen full of useless gadgets.
she is useless in an emergency.
Examples of useless
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It weighs less than three pounds with the phone and is quite useless without it.
From the bloomberg.com
A firearm's real purpose is to shoot, so an unloaded firearm is utterly useless.
From the sacbee.com
Adrenaline and ambition are useless tools without the right strategy and talent.
From the businessweek.com
Old people will freeze to death this winter thanks to a useless weak government.
From the web.orange.co.uk
Of course they are carrying massive Armageddon weaponry and other useless stuff.
From the economist.com
Thus, the tagrolls could end up being so easy to game as to render them useless.
From the techcrunch.com
Most of us schlep way too much and return with unworn items that proved useless.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Also everything north of Birmingham is useless for solar electricity generation.
From the independent.co.uk
It's very natural, but it is a useless past time that yields absolutely nothing.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"
- (uselessly) in a useless manner; "the furniture was sitting around uselessly"
- (uselessness) inutility: the quality of having no practical use
- Useless is the debut EP by the nu metal music group Unloco. The EP was released on April 25, 2000 via Captiva Records. All the songs from this release appeared on the band's major label debut Healing (albeit re-mastered), with the song "I" changed to the title "Nothing".
- Useless is a 2007 documentary film directed by Jia Zhangke. It is Jia's second full-length documentary film after 2006's Dong. The film follows China's fashion and clothing industry. ...
- "Useless" is Depeche Mode's thirty-fourth UK single, released on October 20, 1997, and the fourth and final single for the album Ultra. It was released with "Home" as a double A-side in the US due to "Useless" getting airplay on US radio stations before "Home" was announced.
- Without use or possibility to be used; Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action); : (of a person) good-for-nothing; not dependable; : (of a person) unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting
- (USELESSNESS) The feeling of being of or having no use. Incapable of functioning or assisting.
- "There is something tragic," writes Wilde, "about the enormous number of young men...who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession. ...
