useless
pronunciation
How to pronounce useless in British English:
UK [ˈjuːsləs]
How to pronounce useless in American English:
US [ˈjuːsləs]
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- Adjective:
- having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
- not useful
Word Origin
- useless (adj.)
- 1590s, from use (n.) + -less. Related: Uselessly; uselessness.
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Example
- 1. There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge .
- 2. Your negative thoughts most negative emotions are completely useless .
- 3. This makes them worse than useless in a world characterised by persistent financial instability .
- 4. You could try to bribe your parents , but threats will be useless because they are doing you a favour .
- 5. One explanation is that most rna transcripts are useless , being mere " noise " generated by overzealous enzymes that don 't know when to stop transcribing dna into rna .