: having or being of no use:
a
: ineffectual
a useless attempt
b
: not able to give service or aid : inept
uselessly
adverb
uselessness
noun
Examples of useless in a Sentence
The tent is useless in wet conditions.
I made a useless attempt at fixing the leak.
Drugs are useless in treating the condition.
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
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—Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2025
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
Advertisement One Battle After Another, Eddington, and The Mastermind all comedically register white men as useless political collaborators.
—Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Because social platforms have not trained their detection models on sufficient non-English-language and non-Western data, much of the AI-fakes detection technology is still very shaky, if not useless, in the Global South and across the developing world.
—John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) suggested on Friday that returning to Washington would be all but useless.
—Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2025
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“Useless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/useless. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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