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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
In any contest to name the cruelest and most useless healthcare “reform” favored by Republicans and conservatives, it would be hard to beat the idea of applying work requirements to Medicaid.
“The effort is praiseworthy, but so excessively tardy that it is perfectly useless,” a collective of linguists wrote in the Liberation newspaper on Thursday.
He has told the jury all the information he gave the Iranians was “fake” or “useless”.
But civil discourse has been ground down to a useless nub at this point, and a presidential candidate can share crude jokes about his opponent with barely a blip in the news cycle.
The few times I’ve tried it I’ve felt somewhere between useless to misused, treading the empty road between households where no one is home and no one talks.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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