Definitions for useless
ˈyus lɪsuse·less

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. uselessadjective

   having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully

   "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. uselessadjective

   Without use or possibility to be used.

   This fork has prongs that are bent. It's useless now.

2. uselessadjective

   Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).

3. uselessadjective

   good-for-nothing; not dependable.

   Bill never mows the lawn, takes out the trash or anything. He's useless, but I love him anyways.

4. uselessadjective

   unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Uselessadjective

   Answering no purpose; having no end.

   Etymology: from use.

   So have I seen the lost clouds pour
   Into the sea an useless show’r;
   And the vext sailors curse the rain,
   For which poor shepherds pray’d in vain. Edmund Waller.

   The hurtful teeth of vipers are useless-to us, and yet are parts of their bodies. Boyle.

   His friend, on whose assistance he most relied, either proves false and forsakes him, or looks on with an useless pity, and cannot help him. John Rogers, Sermons.

   The waterman forlorn along the shore,
   Pensive reclines upon his useless oar. John Gay.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Uselessadjective

   having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity

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1. Useless

   "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. "Useless" is an industrial rock track in the vein of "Barrel of a Gun", with more of a pop twist. The single remix, by Alan Moulder, changes the intro and has an updated beat, and adds some extra synth during the chorus. It also contains more grainy vocals. The "The Kruder + Dorfmeister Session" is a very prominent remix by the DJ duo of the same name. On the US single, the single remix is replaced by the CJ Bolland Ultrasonar Edit. There are no actual B-sides for "Useless", except for remixes and live versions of the song. Some versions of the CD single feature the videos for "Barrel of a Gun" and "It's No Good", accessible when the disc is inserted into a PC. The 1997 music video for "Useless" was the last Depeche Mode video to be directed by Anton Corbijn for more than eight years. Though he still did some work for Depeche Mode on album/single covers and tour projections/designs, the band decided to experiment with new directors for music videos. Corbijn's next project with Depeche Mode was the video for "Suffer Well".

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'useless' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4186

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'useless' in Adjectives Frequency: #848

How to pronounce useless?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of useless in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of useless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of useless in a Sentence

1. Andrew Romeo:

   The transmission of coronavirus happens while working shoulder to shoulder all day in your jobs in the breakrooms and in the cars in which you travel together to work without wearing a mask and from there to your homes and to your friends, at times whole families contracting the virus. So we are now in a very serious situation in which every person in the Latinx community has to take their health as their responsibility and fight this dangerous virus. The authorities can implement measures, but if we are not aware of the importance of wearing the mask, keeping our distance and washing our hands, any measure by the authorities will be useless.

2. Niccolo Machiavelli:

   There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.

3. Craig Mitnick:

   There is no need to worry. Because if something can be changed there is no need to worry and if something can't be changed there is no need to worry. Worrying is a useless waste of energy.

4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:

   We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

5. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important.

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