useless
/ˈjuːsləs
/adjective
1Not fulfilling or not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome: a piece of useless knowledge we tried to pacify him but it was useless...
- Anything that's not functioning in accordance with its purpose is useless.
- Once the documents were released and proved to be useless for that purpose, the issue was dropped.
- I wrote a while ago that there is no such thing as useless knowledge.
Synonyms
futile, pointless, purposeless, impractical, vain, in vain, to no purpose, to no avail, unavailing, bootless, nugatory, hopeless, unusable, ineffectual, inefficacious, impotent, fruitless, unprofitable, profitless, unproductive, unachievable, Sisyphean;
unworkable, broken, kaput, unserviceable
informal junky
rare inutile
1.1 informal Having no ability or skill in a specified activity or area: he was useless at football...
- At school she shone at English, but was pretty useless at everything else - her words, not mine.
- Except I'm useless with mobile phones - I can never remember to charge them up.
- I am, quite seriously, one of the most fiscally useless people you'll ever meet.
Synonyms
incompetent, ineffective, worthless, ineffectual, incapable, inept, inadequate, hopeless, weak, bad, no good
informal bum, a dead loss
Derivatives
uselessly
/ adverb ...- So instead I am alternating between gazing uselessly out of the window and staring blankly at this screen trying to string a few sentences together!
- A plea has been made on behalf of the Augustinian Missions for any old Irish notes or coins which may be lying around the house uselessly.
- Out in the street, stalled taxis blast their horns uselessly.